Debar Pond Lodge

Built in 1939 (Adirondack Architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

“Debar Pond Lodge is a historic Great Camp and national historic district located within the Adirondack Forest Preserve at Duane in Franklin County, New York. The main lodge is a rambling two-story, Rustic style building of light-frame construction with an exterior veneer of half and full round logs.”
Wikipedia article Debar Pond Lodge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 86 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2014 · category: District · built in 1939, Adirondack Architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Debar Park Rd., Duane, 12953
When was it listed? December 2014
Category. district
Town. Duane town
When was it built? 1939
Architectural style. Adirondack Architecture
National Register reference number. 14001048 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Debar Pond Lodge, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Debar Pond Lodge, surveyed 1906

Fires near this property

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Debar Pond Lodge between 1997 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	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
9 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	CALIFORNIA RD
9 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	SILVERSTEIN
13 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	OLD INDIAN CAMP
10 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	DEBAR MTN
18 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	DUANE STREAM

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Debar Pond Lodge: 3 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Titanium, Metal. 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
Brewer Hill Mine	Iron, Titanium, Metal	Past Producer	Replacement
Brewer Hill Mine	Iron	Prospect
Briggs Prospect	Iron	Occurrence	Replacement
Briggs Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Duane Mines	Iron	Past Producer	1828, 1849
Studley Hill Property Deposit	Iron	Prospect

Every working 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.

1906 USGS Loon Lake quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1908 USGS Loon Lake quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Owls Head quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1985 USGS Massena quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Massena quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Duane Methodist Episcopal Church	4.1 miles	1991
Loon Lake Mountain Fire Observation Station	5.0 miles	2008
First Union Protestant Church of Mountain View	5.8 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14001048 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.