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Knollwood

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1919.

From the record

“Knollwood is a medium-sized, historic Adirondack rustic style camp located on the Oswegatchie River in the Town of Fine, Saint Lawrence County, New York. The main building is a two-story cross-gabled, 2,350-square-foot (218 m2) building with elements of Stick and Bungalow style architecture.”

Wikipedia article Knollwood (Star Lake, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for St. Lawrence County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. S. end of Inlet Rd. at Oswegatchie R., Star Lake, 13690
  • When was it listed? January 2012
  • Category. building
  • Town. Fine town
  • National Register reference number. 11001006 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1919 to 1999

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Knollwood, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet covering Knollwood, surveyed 1919

Fires near this property

15 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Knollwood between 2005 and 2019, burning about 9 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
17 July 2012Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersMOORE TRAIL FIRE
8 May 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkMASSAWEPIE HUNTING CLUB FIRE
24 May 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
14 May 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Knollwood: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, Metal, Titanium, 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
Benson Mine and MillIron, Titanium, MetalPast Producer1978
Benson MinesIron, TitaniumPast Producer1810, 1887
Vader PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Benson MinesIronPast Producer1810, 1889, 1978
Dead Creek DepositsIronOccurrence1943
Jones & Laughlin Ore ConcentratorIronPlant
Twinlakes Streams OccurrenceIronOccurrence1945

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Star Lake, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1995Thunderstorm WindStar Lake$125,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Lawrence County

Maps showing this location

10 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

2 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
Wanakena Footbridge1.8 miles
Wanakena Presbyterian Church1.9 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11001006 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Lawrence CountyAll 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.
  • 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.