A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1754. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.
From the record
“Fort Ticonderoga, formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in northern New York. It was constructed between October 1755 and 1757 by French-Canadian military engineer Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière during the North American phase of the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.”
Wikipedia article Fort Ticonderoga, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 1966 · category: Structure · built in 1754, by Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière · a National Historic Landmark.
Architect. Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière
National Register reference number.66000519- 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
58 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Fort Ticonderoga, North Demi-lune
between 2000 and 2018, burning about 28 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 9 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
Arson/incendiarism
9
Natural
7
Debris and open burning
4
Smoking
3
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
18 workings within 5 miles of Fort Ticonderoga, North Demi-lune: 14 past producers, 4 producers.
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Ticonderoga, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 17 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 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.
Several reports of trees downed by thunderstorm winds and some utility lines downed between Schroon Lake, Crown Point and Ticonderoga off Routes 74 and 9N.
St Claire St in Ticonderoga is flooded and impassable. Cellars are beginning to flood with emergency responders working to pump out water. In addition, several culverts between Schroon Lake and Ticonderoga have been washed out.
A cold front moved across northern New York during the late morning and afternoon hours of Monday, July 7, 1997. Showers and thunderstorms accompanied this front with locally heavy rain and some large hail.
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.
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.
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.
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