Tahawus Masonic Lodge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 14234 Main St., Au Sable Forks, 12912
When was it listed? March 2021
Category. building
Town. Jay town
National Register reference number. 100006216 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

141 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Tahawus Masonic Lodge between 2002 and 2020, burning about 144 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 33 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	68
Arson/incendiarism	33
Natural	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Debris and open burning	9
Smoking	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
7 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
25 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Tahawus Masonic Lodge: 27 past producers, 6 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Pyradey Estate Deposits	Titanium, Iron	Occurrence
Ausable Forks Quarry	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
George W. Smith Ore Bed Deposit	Iron, Granite	Past Producer
Gulf Prospect	Graphite	Occurrence	Contact Metamorphic
Gulf Prospect	Graphite	Prospect
Passaic Crushed Stone Quarry	Granite	Producer
Smith Prospect	Graphite	Occurrence
Charles Clements Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Emerald Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Surface
Keystone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1895 USGS Ausable quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1903 USGS Ausable quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Au Sable Forks quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1978 USGS Au Sable Forks quadrangle1:25000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Lake Champlain South quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

5 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Au Sable Forks Historic District	1.4 miles	2026
Graves Mansion	1.5 miles	2022
Asgaard Farm	1.8 miles	2020
Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain Fire Observation Station	7.3 miles	2001
Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain Fire Observation Station	7.9 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100006216 in Record Group 79.
Essex County	All 114 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.