Halfway House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

One of 83 National Register listings published here for St. Lawrence County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 4365 NY 68, Lisbon, 13654
When was it listed? July 2023
Category. building
Town. Lisbon town
National Register reference number. 100009167 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1904 to 1948

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Halfway House, surveyed 1948

Topographic sheet covering Halfway House, surveyed 1904

Fires near this property

62 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Halfway House between 1999 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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	34
Arson/incendiarism	16
Debris and open burning	6
Smoking	3
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
19 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this property

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lisbon, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 11 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lisbon	$30,000	no account filed
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lisbon	$25,000	Powerlines and trees down in Lisbon and along County Road 28 toward Waddington and Ogdensburg.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Lisbon	$20,000	Numerous trees and utility lines downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lisbon	$20,000	Multiple trees and power lines down across Lisbon.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Lisbon	$20,000	Several trees and power lines down in the Lisbon vicinity.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lisbon	$10,000	Numerous trees and power lines down.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Lisbon	$5,000	Scattered trees and power lines down.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Lisbon	$2,000	Utility lines downed by fallen branches and a few trees.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Lisbon	$2,000	Tree and branches down on wires.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Lisbon	$1,000	no account filed
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Lisbon	$500	A cold front moved southeast from Canada into northern New York during the late afternoon and evening hours of August 4th resulting in severe thunderstorms across parts of St. Lawrence County. Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees in Morristown with scattered reports of trees and powerlines down elsewhere in the county. Nickel-size hail was reported along the west shore of Tupper Lake.

Every storm recorded in St. Lawrence County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United 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 Ogdensburg quadrangle1:62500
1905 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1943 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 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
Pickens Hall	4.6 miles	2004
Congregational Church	4.6 miles	2005
Hepburn Library of Lisbon	4.6 miles	2016
Lisbon Railroad Depot	4.8 miles	2000
Lisbon Town Hall	4.9 miles	1980
United Presbyterian Church	5.0 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009167 in Record Group 79.
St. Lawrence County	All 83 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.
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.