Essex County Municipal Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 2016 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 7551-7559 Court St., Elizabethtown, 12932
When was it listed? May 2016
Category. building
Town. Elizabethtown town
National Register reference number. 16000224 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

68 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Essex County Municipal Complex between 1993 and 2020, burning about 200 acres in total. 11 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	25
Natural	11
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
8 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	BALD MT FIRE
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	19 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
7 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	LIGHTNING HILL
7 August 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2001	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
21 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

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 Essex County Municipal Complex: 16 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Titanium, Metal, Iron, Vanadium. 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
Elizabethtown-Westport Area	Iron, Titanium, Metal, Vanadium	Past Producer
Little Pond Mines	Iron, Titanium, Vanadium	Past Producer
Oak Hill Deposit	Iron, Titanium, Metal	Past Producer	1810
Tunnel Mountain Mines	Iron, Titanium, Vanadium	Past Producer
Gates Mine	Iron, Titanium	Past Producer
Little Pond Mines	Titanium, Metal, Iron, Vanadium	Occurrence
Oak Hill Deposits	Iron, Titanium	Past Producer
Tunnel Mountain Mines	Titanium, Metal, Iron, Vanadium	Occurrence
Dickinson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lewis Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms near this property

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elizabethtown, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2024	Flash Flood	Elizabethtown	$200,000	Dept. of Highways and Emergency Management reported several roads damaged and/or washed out in and around the Elizabethtown, NY area due to 3 to 5 inches of excessive rainfall. These included, but were not limited to Lincoln Pond Rd. and Route 9N between US 9 and Old Military Rd.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Elizabethtown	$10,000	Trees down along side of road near the intersection of Back road and Wood Hill highway.
October 2020	Hail	Elizabethtown	$10,000	Public reported up to golf ball size hail fell with minor damage to vehicles.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Elizabethtown	$10,000	Numerous trees down.
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Elizabethtown	$10,000	no account filed
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Elizabethtown	$5,000	Several trees down.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Elizabethtown	$2,000	Trees and utility lines downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2005	Hail	Elizabethtown	$1,000	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Elizabethtown	-	Nickel size hail reported.
July 2007	Hail	Elizabethtown	-	Nickel size hail reported.

Every storm recorded in Essex 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.

1894 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1895 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1978 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Lake Champlain South 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
Hubbard Hall	0.1 miles	1999
Hand-Hale Historic District	0.3 miles	1979
First Congregational Church and Cemetery	4.6 miles	2005
Hurricane Mountain Fire Observation Station	5.1 miles	2007
First Congregational and Presbyterian Society Church of Westport	6.8 miles	1988
Essex County Fairgrounds	7.5 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000224 in Record Group 79.
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.
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.