Photograph of Fort Saint-Frédéric — Photograph by petersent, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort St. Frederic

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“Fort Saint-Frédéric was a French fort built on Lake Champlain to secure the region against British colonization and control the lake. It was located in modern New York State across the lake from modern Vermont at the town of Crown Point, New York.”
Wikipedia article Fort Saint-Frédéric, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 1966 · category: Site · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Jct. of NY 8 and 9N, Crown Point, 12928
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. site
Town. Crown Point town
National Register reference number. 66000517 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

61 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Fort St. Frederic between 2001 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 2 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	30
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
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 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
17 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 June 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 June 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 June 2020	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Fort St. Frederic: 10 past producers, 2 producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Marble, Dimension. 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
Craig Harbor Mine	Iron, REE, Titanium	Past Producer
Crown Point Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Lee Mine	Iron, Titanium, Metal	Past Producer	Replacement
Lee Mine	Iron, REE	Past Producer
Mineville Mines	Iron, REE, Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past Producer	1810, 1824
Treadway Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer	1875
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Biglow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Biglow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Letsonville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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 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 Port Henry quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Port Henry quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1945 USGS Port Henry quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1947 USGS Port Henry quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1980 USGS Port Henry quadrangle1:25000
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
Fort Crown Point	1.4 miles	1968
Delaware & Hudson Railroad Depot	3.2 miles	1995
Henry's Garage	3.6 miles	2017
Sherman Free Library	3.6 miles	1995
Mount Moriah Presbyterian Church	3.6 miles	1995
Van Ornam & Murdock Block	3.6 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000517 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.