BlockFrom the record
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 2016 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Civilian Conservation Corps Camp S-90 (Speculator)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.
The listing
- Address. 117 Page St., Lake Pleasant, 12108
- When was it listed? August 2016
- Category. district
- Town. Lake Pleasant town
- National Register reference number. 16000485 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1907 to 1997The ground this property stands on, surveyed 90 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
33 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Civilian Conservation Corps Camp S-90 (Speculator) between 2002 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None was 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 ceremony | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 4 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | SPECULATOR FIRE |
| 2 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | FAWN LAKE #1 |
| 6 August 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | LONG ISLAND FIRE |
| 5 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 4 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 26 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 15 August 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | GILMAN TOWN RD |
Storms near this property
12 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Pleasant, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 12 thunderstorm wind. 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 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | $6,000 | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | - | Downed trees were reported near Piseco. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | - | Trees were downed near Route 8 in Lake Pleasant Town Center. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | - | A tree was downed on Route 8. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | - | A tree was downed along Route 8 near Lake Pleasant. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | - | Three trees were reported down in Lake Pleasant due to thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | - | One tree was reported down and partially blocking County Route 11 in Lake Pleasant due to strong thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | - | Trees and power lines were reported down near Lake Pleasant due to strong thunderstorm winds. Some of the trees were blocking roads. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | - | Powerlines were blown down in Lake Pleasant. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | - | Trees were blown down. |
Maps showing this location
10 surveysUnited 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.
- 1907 USGS Lake Pleasant quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
- 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Lake Pleasant quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
- 1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Wells quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Wells quadrangle1:25000
Listed places nearby
4 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grace Methodist Church Complex | 1.6 miles | 2015 | |
 | Hamilton County Courthouse Complex | 1.6 miles | 1992 |
| Lake Pleasant Town Hall | 1.7 miles | 2009 | |
| Wells Baptist Church | 7.7 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000485 in Record Group 79. |
| Hamilton County | All 24 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.