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One of 83 National Register listings published here for St. Lawrence County · listed in 2016 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Hepburn Library of Lisbon
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 6899 Lisbon Center State Rd., Lisbon, 13658
- When was it listed? August 2016
- Category. building
- Town. Lisbon town
- National Register reference number. 16000556 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1904 to 1948The ground this property stands on, surveyed 44 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
79 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Hepburn Library of Lisbon between 1999 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 28 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 | 33 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 28 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 25 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 19 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 15 August 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 14 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 9 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
Storms near this property
11 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lisbon, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisbon | $30,000 | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisbon | $25,000 | Powerlines and trees down in Lisbon and along County Road 28 toward Waddington and Ogdensburg. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisbon | $20,000 | Numerous trees and utility lines downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisbon | $20,000 | Multiple trees and power lines down across Lisbon. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisbon | $20,000 | Several trees and power lines down in the Lisbon vicinity. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisbon | $10,000 | Numerous trees and power lines down. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisbon | $5,000 | Scattered trees and power lines down. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisbon | $2,000 | Utility lines downed by fallen branches and a few trees. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisbon | $2,000 | Tree and branches down on wires. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisbon | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisbon | $500 | A cold front moved southeast from Canada into northern New York during the late afternoon and evening hours of August 4th resulting in severe thunderstorms across parts of St. Lawrence County. Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees in Morristown with scattered reports of trees and powerlines down elsewhere in the county. Nickel-size hail was reported along the west shore of Tupper Lake. |
Maps showing this location
9 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.
- 1904 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lisbon Railroad Depot | 0.2 miles | 2000 | |
| Lisbon Town Hall | 0.3 miles | 1980 | |
| United Presbyterian Church | 0.3 miles | 2005 | |
| Halfway House | 4.6 miles | 2023 | |
 | Trinity Episcopal Chapel | 7.3 miles | 1990 |
| Harrison Grist Mill | 7.4 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000556 in Record Group 79. |
| St. Lawrence County | All 83 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.