Clinton County Courthouse Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“The Clinton County Courthouse Complex is a historic county government and courthouse site located at 135 Margaret Street in Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York. The main courthouse was constructed in 1889.”
Wikipedia article Clinton County Courthouse Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 53 National Register listings published here for Clinton County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 135 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, 12901
When was it listed? November 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Plattsburgh City MRA
City. Plattsburgh city
National Register reference number. 82001101 - 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

281 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 281 fires within 5 miles of Clinton County Courthouse Complex between 1995 and 2020, burning about 214 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 50 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	169
Arson/incendiarism	50
Debris and open burning	18
Smoking	14
Natural	13
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	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
6 September 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Clinton County Courthouse Complex: 18 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Clinton Co High, Dept. Quarry	Stone	Past Producer	Surface
Plattsburg	Chromium, Osmium, Copper, Palladium, Rhodium, Iridium, Platinum	Occurrence	1880
Barcomb Development	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Darrah Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rugar Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bluff Point Quarry	Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Cliff Haven Quarry #1	Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Cliff Haven Quarry #2	Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Plattsburgh Quarry #3	Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Plattsburgh Quarry #4	Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this property

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plattsburgh, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Plattsburgh	$500,000	Numerous trees downed by thunderstorm winds across Cumberland Head and local state park as well as damaged docks and boats at the Treadwell marina. Several trees and large branches fell on camp sites within state park with only a few minor injuries reported.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Plattsburgh	$250,000	Numerous trees down...damaged roofs and power poles across North Plattsburgh and East Beekmantown including Moffitt, Pardy roads and State Route 9.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Plattsburgh	$50,000	Numerous trees reported down throughout Plattsburgh as well as power lines. Very heavy rainfall caused some localized street flooding in poor drainage areas.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Plattsburgh	$50,000	Numerous trees down across Plattsburgh, that have fallen onto power lines and some structures.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Plattsburgh	$25,000	Trees down, wind gusts estimated to 70 mph and quarter size hail reported (and videotaped) by local television station situated along Route 9 about 1 mile north-northeast of Plattsburgh.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Plattsburgh	$20,000	Several reports of trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds in Plattsburgh.
August 2007	Hail	Plattsburgh	$20,000	Nickel size hail and estimated 60 mph or higher wind gusts with numerous branches knocked down reported and videotaped by local television station.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Plattsburgh	$15,000	Several trees down in the Plattsburgh area.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Plattsburgh	$10,000	Numerous trees down.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Plattsburgh	$10,000	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Plattsburgh	$10,000	no account filed
July 1996	Flash Flood	Plattsburgh	$10,000	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Plattsburgh	$10,000	no account filed
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Plattsburgh	$5,000	Large temporary wall at construction site of downtown building knocked down during thunderstorm winds.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Plattsburgh	$5,000	Large branches and power pole down on Lake Breeze Drive.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Plattsburgh	$5,000	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Plattsburgh	$1,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Plattsburgh	$1,000	no account filed
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Plattsburgh	-	Multiple reports of trees and wires down in Plattburgh and Beekmantown.
August 2024	Hail	Plattsburgh	-	Dime size hail reported along with more than an inch of rain in 20 minutes.
June 2012	Hail	Plattsburgh	-	Penny size hail reported by Clinton county EM.
July 2010	Heavy Rain	Plattsburgh	-	Heavy rain fell in the city of Plattsburgh NY. There were reports of widespread street flooding as storm drains were overwhelmed by the runoff.
July 2009	Hail	Plattsburgh	-	Numerous reports of nickel to quarter size hail reported in the Plattsburgh vicinity.
May 2006	Hail	Plattsburgh	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Plattsburgh	-	no account filed
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Plattsburgh	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Plattsburgh	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Plattsburgh	-	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Plattsburgh	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton County

Maps showing this location

11 surveys

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.

1894 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1906 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1939 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Plattsburgh quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1966 USGS Plattsburgh quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Lake Champlain North 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
City Hall	under 500 feet	1973
House at 56 Cornelia Street	under 500 feet	1982
Paul Marshall House	under 500 feet	1982
First Presbyterian Church	0.1 miles	1982
Strand Theater	0.2 miles	2008
Brinkerhoff Street Historic District	0.2 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82001101 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clinton County	All 53 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.