Fort Crown Point

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1968. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“Fort Crown Point was built by the combined efforts of British and Colonial troops from New York and the New England Colonies in 1759 at a narrows on Lake Champlain on the border between New York and Vermont. It was constructed to secure the region against the French in upstate New York near the town of Crown Point, and it was the largest earthen fortress built in the American colonies.”
Wikipedia article Fort Crown Point, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 1968 · category: District · 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. Crown Point Reservation, SW of Lake Champlain Bridge and NY 8, Crown Point, 12928
When was it listed? November 1968
Category. district
Town. Crown Point town
National Register reference number. 68000033 - 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 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Fort Crown Point between 2001 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
18 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	GIANT RIDGE
17 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
14 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Fort Crown Point: 17 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, REE, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Cheever Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cheever Mine	Iron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, REE	Past Producer
Craig Harbor Mine	Iron, REE, Titanium	Past Producer
Crown Point Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Lee Mine	Iron, Titanium, Metal	Past Producer	Replacement
Millbrook Deposit	Graphite, Quartz	Occurrence
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

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 St. Frederic	1.4 miles	1966
Delaware & Hudson Railroad Depot	1.9 miles	1995
Sherman Free Library	2.3 miles	1995
Henry's Garage	2.3 miles	2017
Van Ornam & Murdock Block	2.3 miles	1982
Mount Moriah Presbyterian Church	2.3 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 68000033 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.