Sagamore

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1897 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Great Camp Sagamore is an Adirondack Great Camp located on Sagamore Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York State.”
Wikipedia article Great Camp Sagamore, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1897, rustic architecture, by William West Durant · 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. Off NY 28 at W end of Sagamore Lake, Racquette Lake, 13436
When was it listed? January 1976
Category. building
Town. Long Lake town
When was it built? 1897
Architectural style. rustic architecture
Architect. William West Durant
National Register reference number. 76001221 - 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.

Then and now

1903 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Sagamore, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Sagamore, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Sagamore between 2010 and 2013, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
15 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	HIGH ROCK POND FIRE
1 June 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	8TH LAKE FIRE
5 May 2013	Smoking	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 April 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	RAQUETTE LAKE

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Maps showing this location

10 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 Raquette Lake quadrangle1:62500 - 13 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1997 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:25000

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
Sagamore Lodge (Boundary Increase)	under 500 feet	1986
Camp Uncas	1.1 miles	1987
Whelan Camp	3.2 miles	1989
Camp Pine Knot	3.9 miles	1986
Echo Camp	4.1 miles	1986
St. William's Catholic Church	4.2 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001221 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hamilton County	All 24 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.