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One of 86 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
U.S. Inspection Station-Fort Covington, New York
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. U.S. Inspection Station--Fort Covington, New York - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Dundee Rd., Fort Covington, 12937
- When was it listed? September 2014
- Category. building
- Also known as. U.S. Border Inspection Stations MPS
- Town. Fort Covington town
- National Register reference number. 14000575 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1915 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
68 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of U.S. Inspection Station-Fort Covington, New York between 2000 and 2017, burning about 41 acres in total. 2 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 | 47 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 5 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.6 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 28 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 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 |
| 21 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 19 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 August 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.3 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of U.S. Inspection Station-Fort Covington, New York: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Covington Highway Dept. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Maps showing this location
11 surveysUnited 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.
- 1915 USGS Moira quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Moira quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1944 USGS Moira quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Bombay quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Fort Covington Port of Entry quadrangle1:25000
- 1985 USGS Massena quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Massena quadrangle1:100000
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000575 in Record Group 79. |
| Franklin County | All 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.