Snell-Gillett House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 213 Mill Street, Theresa, 13691
When was it listed? August 2025
Category. building
Town. Theresa town
National Register reference number. 100012104 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

150 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Snell-Gillett House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 151 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 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	103
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Smoking	7
Debris and open burning	6
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	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 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
4 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Snell-Gillett House: 2 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Plessis Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Burntbridge Pond Anomaly	Iron	Occurrence	1945
Outafit Occurrence	Iron	Occurrence	1945
Shirtliff Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1838

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Theresa, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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
July 2004	Flash Flood	Theresa	$25,000	no account filed
February 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Theresa	$15,000	Emergency Management reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
February 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Theresa	$10,000	Emergency management reported trees down on Red Lake Road in Theresa.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Theresa	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees down by thunderstorm winds across Schell Road.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Theresa	$3,000	Multiple trees were reported down.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Theresa	$1,000	Trees downed in the Town of Theresa.
July 2009	Hail	Theresa	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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.

1903 USGS Theresa quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Theresa quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Theresa quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Theresa quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Gouverneur quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012104 in Record Group 79.
Jefferson County	All 144 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.
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.