Kessel Park Inn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. 9 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 2023 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. 33 and 39 Kessel Park Rd., 113 Corlear Bay Rd., Port Douglas, 12944
When was it listed? August 2023
Category. building
Town. Chesterfield town
National Register reference number. 100009190 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Kessel Park Inn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 189 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 8 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	52
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Natural	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	3

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 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	RAILROAD #1
26 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
24 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Kessel Park Inn: 14 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Limestone, General. 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
Mount Bigelow Mine	Garnet	Past Producer	1905, 1914, 1950
Port Kent Beach Sand Deposit	Titanium, Iron	Occurrence
Jackson Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1835, 1865
C. B. White Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	1885, 1892
Empire State Granite Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Unknown
Frisbie's Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	1865
Lake Champlain Bluestone Co Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	1865
S. W. Clark & Co. Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	1854, 1869
Southern Quarry	Granite	Past Producer	1880, 1890
Unnamed Prospect	Granite	Occurrence	1885

Every working recorded in Essex County

Maps showing this location

9 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 Willsboro quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1941 USGS Willsboro quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Willsboro quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Willsboro quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1980 USGS Willsboro Bay quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Lake Champlain South 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
Elkanah Watson House	3.3 miles	1966
Rembrandt Hall	3.6 miles	1983
Tomlinson House	3.6 miles	1983
Adsit Log House	4.3 miles	1992
Ligonier Point Historic District	4.6 miles	2013
Edgewater Farm	5.4 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009190 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.