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Photograph of Thousand Island Park Historic District
Photograph by Roy Googin, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Thousand Island Park Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Thousand Island Park, also known as TI Park, is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Orleans, Jefferson County, New York, United States, in the Thousand Islands region on the St. Founded in 1875 as a holiday camp, the incorporated community remains a seasonal summer community; despite 323 housing units, it had a population of 96 at the 2020 census.”

Wikipedia article Thousand Island Park, New York, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2022 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

92 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Thousand Island Park Historic District between 2002 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined57
Arson/incendiarism17
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Thousand Island Park Historic District: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Acton Island QuarryGranitePast Producer
Clayton QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Flick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
La Fargville Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

5 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Rock Island Light Station0.7 miles1978
Methodist-Protestant Church at Fisher's Landing1.2 miles1996
George T. Robinson House2.6 miles2017
A. Newton Farm2.9 miles1997
Methodist Episcopal Church3.1 miles1996
Thousand Island Grange Hall3.3 miles1996

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82001177 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson CountyAll 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.