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One of 86 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2021 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Oval Wood Dish Factory
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
The listing
- Address. 100-120 Demars Blvd. and 13 Dish Ave., Tupper Lake, 12986
- When was it listed? March 2021
- Category. district
- Town. Tupper Lake town
- National Register reference number. 100006198 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1904 to 1999The ground this property stands on, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
57 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Oval Wood Dish Factory between 1998 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 28 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 24 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 24 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 23 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 17 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 31 August 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | SIMON POND FIRE |
| 22 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Oval Wood Dish Factory: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gales Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
19 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tupper Lake, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Flood | Tupper Lake | $3,000,000 | Runoff from heavy rain and snowmelt caused flooding on the Raquette River. In Tupper Lake Village, homes were surrounded by water, forcing evacuations. Route 3 was flooded in the Village and between Tupper Lake Village and Wawbeek. Flooding continued into May. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tupper Lake | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tupper Lake | $20,000 | Trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 1997 | Lightning | Tupper Lake | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tupper Lake | $10,000 | Several trees downed by thunderstorms winds. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tupper Lake | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tupper Lake | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tupper Lake | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tupper Lake | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tupper Lake | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tupper Lake | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tupper Lake | $5,000 | no account filed |
| November 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tupper Lake | $3,000 | Several reports of trees down, including State routes 3 and 30. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Tupper Lake | - | Quarter size hail reported. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Tupper Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Tupper Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Tupper Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Tupper Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Tupper Lake | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
9 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1904 USGS Long Lake quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
- 1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Long Lake quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
- 1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Tupper Lake quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Tupper Lake quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1999 USGS Tupper Lake quadrangle1:25000
Listed places nearby
5 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Beth Joseph Synagogue | 0.8 miles | 1988 |
| The Moorings | 3.2 miles | 2025 | |
 | Prospect Point Camp | 6.8 miles | 1986 |
 | Eagle Island Camp | 7.2 miles | 1987 |
 | Moss Ledge | 7.4 miles | 1986 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006198 in Record Group 79. |
| Franklin County | All 86 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.