LeRay Mansion

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. NE of Black River on Fort Drum Military Reservation, Black River, 13603
When was it listed? July 1974
Category. building
Town. Le Ray town
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 74001245 - 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

128 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of LeRay Mansion between 2000 and 2020, burning about 101 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 23 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	81
Arson/incendiarism	23
Natural	9
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	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
6 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of LeRay Mansion: 8 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Grass Pond Occurrence	Iron	Occurrence	1945
Black River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Black River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Black River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Felts Mills Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Freeman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Soper Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Town of Pamelia Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Town of Pamelia Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Black River, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Black River	$15,000	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Black River	$10,000	Officials reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2012	Hail	Black River	$10,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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.

1903 USGS Theresa quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1948 USGS Black River quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Theresa quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Black River quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Gouverneur quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	LeRay Hotel	3.4 miles	1982
	Hiram Hubbard House	7.0 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001245 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 144 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.
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.