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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
Church of the Ascension Chapel and Rectory
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 32 and 81 Cty. Rd. 46, Saranac Inn, 12983
- When was it listed? November 2021
- Category. district
- Town. Santa Clara town
- National Register reference number. 100007097 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1905 to 1999The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 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
29 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Church of the Ascension Chapel and Rectory between 2004 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | POLLIWOG FIRE |
| 5 September 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | COPPER |
| 10 September 2007 | Natural | 1.1 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 1 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | ST. REGIS POND |
| 1 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | FLOODWOOD |
| 4 August 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | HORSE SHOE POND |
| 24 August 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | FCP FIRE |
| 22 August 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | SANDBAR FIRE |
Maps showing this location
9 surveysUnited 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.
- 1905 USGS Saint Regis quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
- 1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Saint Regis quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Upper Saranac Lake quadrangle1:25000
- 1985 USGS Tupper Lake quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1999 USGS Upper Saranac Lake quadrangle1:25000
Listed places nearby
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lady Tree Lodge | 0.4 miles | 2018 |
 | Moss Ledge | 4.3 miles | 1986 |
 | St. Regis Mountain Fire Observation Station | 4.4 miles | 2005 |
 | Prospect Point Camp | 4.7 miles | 1986 |
 | Eagle Island Camp | 4.8 miles | 1987 |
| St. Regis Mountain Fire Observation Station | 4.8 miles | 2005 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007097 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.