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Photograph of Big Moose Community Chapel
Photograph by BurrRose, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Big Moose Community Chapel

Built in 1931 (Adirondack Architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Big Moose Community Chapel is a historic chapel located on Big Moose Lake near Eagle Bay in Herkimer County, New York. The chapel was built in 1931, and is a modified "L"-plan Late Gothic Revival style church constructed of locally quarried granite.”

Wikipedia article Big Moose Community Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Herkimer County · listed in 2012 · category: Building · built in 1931, Adirondack Architecture.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1544 Big Moose Rd., Eagle Bay, 13331
  • When was it listed? August 2012
  • Category. building
  • Town. Webb town
  • When was it built? 1931
  • Architectural style. Adirondack Architecture, Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 12000478 - 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.

Fires near this property

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Big Moose Community Chapel 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 ceremony4
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 September 2002Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest RangersTERROR LAKE
23 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersCASCADE LAKE FIRE
8 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 August 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersSITE 8 FIRE
17 August 2002Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersRUSSIAN LAKE FIRE
25 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 June 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 June 2011Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Herkimer County

Storms near this property

7 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1995Thunderstorm WindEagle Bay$7,000no account filed
March 2020Thunderstorm WindEagle Bay$1,000Trees and wires were downed.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindEagle Bay-A tree was down and on a garage on Fourth Lake near Old Forge due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindEagle 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 2014Thunderstorm WindEagle Bay-Wires were reported down in Eagle Bay as a result of thunderstorm winds.
May 2017HailEagle Bay-no account filed
April 2004HailEagle Bay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Herkimer 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.

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
Camp Veery0.4 miles2023
Covewood Lodge1.3 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12000478 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Herkimer CountyAll 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.