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The Moorings

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

One of 86 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 365 Big Wolf Road East, Tupper Lake, 12986
  • When was it listed? August 2025
  • Category. building
  • Town. Tupper Lake town
  • National Register reference number. 100012186 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1905 to 1999

The 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.

Topographic sheet covering The Moorings, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet covering The Moorings, surveyed 1905

Fires near this property

46 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of The Moorings between 1998 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 September 2000Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
24 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2003Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
17 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersFLOODWOOD
22 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersEAST PINE POND
12 August 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersFLOODWOOD POND FIRE

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of The Moorings: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ton-Da-Lay PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this property

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tupper Lake, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011FloodTupper Lake$3,000,000Runoff from heavy rain and snowmelt caused flooding on the Raquette River. In Tupper Lake Village, homes were surrounded by water, forcing evacuations. Route 3 was flooded in the Village and between Tupper Lake Village and Wawbeek. Flooding continued into May.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindTupper Lake$25,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindTupper Lake$20,000Trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds.
June 1997LightningTupper Lake$20,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindTupper Lake$10,000Several trees downed by thunderstorms winds.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindTupper Lake$10,000no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindTupper Lake$10,000no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindTupper Lake$10,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindTupper Lake$5,000no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindTupper Lake$5,000no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindTupper Lake$5,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindTupper Lake$5,000no account filed
November 2006Thunderstorm WindTupper Lake$3,000Several reports of trees down, including State routes 3 and 30.
May 2012HailTupper Lake-Quarter size hail reported.
June 2004HailTupper Lake-no account filed
July 2004HailTupper Lake-no account filed
July 2004HailTupper Lake-no account filed
August 2001HailTupper Lake-no account filed
August 1998HailTupper Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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.

Listed places nearby

5 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Oval Wood Dish Factory3.2 miles2021
Beth Joseph Synagogue4.0 miles1988
Prospect Point Camp6.1 miles1986
Eagle Island Camp6.6 miles1987
Moss Ledge6.6 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100012186 in Record Group 79.
Franklin CountyAll 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.
  • 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.