Crown Point Green Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“Crown Point Green Historic District is a national historic district located at Crown Point, Essex County, New York. It encompasses 13 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure centered on Crown Point hamlet's green and the domestic, religious, commercial and civic properties adjacent to it.”
Wikipedia article Crown Point Green Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 2015 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Park Ave., Creek Rd., NY 9N/22, Crown Point, 12928
When was it listed? May 2015
Category. district
Town. Crown Point town
National Register reference number. 15000231 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Crown Point Green Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 165 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 7 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	28
Debris and open burning	18
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	MILLER MOUNTAIN
6 July 1995	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
4 July 2003	Natural	20 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Crown Point Green Historic District: 14 past producers, 4 producers, 3 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Graphite, Feldspar, Iron. 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
Crown Point Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Crown Point Spar Mine	Feldspar, Mica	Past Producer	1925, 1930
Rose Rock Quarry	Feldspar, Mica, Sulfur-Pyrite	Past Producer	Feldspar, Mica, Pyrite
Towne Prospect	Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite	Past Producer	1902, 1903
Crown Point Spar Company Quarry	Feldspar, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Rose Rock Quarry	Feldspar, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Butler Mine	Iron	Prospect
Dibble Hollow Iron Mine	Iron	Prospect
Vineland and Butler Mines	Iron	Past Producer	1887, 1892
Buck Mountain Pond Property Mine	Graphite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1894 USGS Ticonderoga quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1896 USGS Ticonderoga quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1902 USGS Ticonderoga quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1950 USGS Crown Point quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1950 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Ticonderoga quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1956 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Ticonderoga quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Ticonderoga quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 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
Fort St. Frederic	3.7 miles	1966
Fort Crown Point	4.9 miles	1968
Ironville Historic District	5.5 miles	1974
Delaware & Hudson Railroad Depot	6.4 miles	1995
Henry's Garage	6.7 miles	2017
Sherman Free Library	6.7 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000231 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Essex County	All 114 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.