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One of 74 National Register listings published here for Herkimer County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Camp Veery
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 100 Echo Island, Eagle Bay, 13331
- When was it listed? July 2023
- Category. building
- Town. Webb town
- National Register reference number. 100009171 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
11 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Camp Veery between 2002 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 2002 | Natural | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | TERROR LAKE |
| 23 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | CASCADE LAKE FIRE |
| 8 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 20 August 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | SITE 8 FIRE |
| 17 August 2002 | Natural | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | RUSSIAN LAKE FIRE |
| 25 July 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 June 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 24 June 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Storms near this property
7 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle Bay, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle Bay | $7,000 | no account filed |
| March 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle Bay | $1,000 | Trees and wires were downed. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle Bay | - | A tree was down and on a garage on Fourth Lake near Old Forge due to thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle Bay | - | A tree was down on South Shore Road near Old Forge in the town of Webb blocking the roadway due to thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle Bay | - | Wires were reported down in Eagle Bay as a result of thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Eagle Bay | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Eagle Bay | - | no account filed |
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.
- 1903 USGS Big Moose quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
- 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Big Moose quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
- 1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Eagle Bay quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Big Moose Community Chapel | 0.4 miles | 2012 |
 | Covewood Lodge | 1.0 miles | 2004 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009171 in Record Group 79. |
| Herkimer County | All 74 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.