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Photograph of Pierrepont Town Buildings
Photograph by Dclemens1971, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Pierrepont Town Buildings

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“Pierrepont Town Buildings is a historic town hall and related building complex located at Pierrepont in St. The complex consists of three buildings: the Pierrepont Town Hall, Pierrepont Museum, and Pierrepont Union Church.”

Wikipedia article Pierrepont Town Buildings, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for St. Lawrence 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Main St., Pierrepont Center, 13617
  • When was it listed? November 1982
  • Category. building
  • Town. Pierrepont town
  • National Register reference number. 82001271 - 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

1910 to 1948

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 38 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Pierrepont Town Buildings, surveyed 1948
Topographic sheet covering Pierrepont Town Buildings, surveyed 1910

Fires near this property

93 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Pierrepont Town Buildings between 1993 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined65
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
5 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Pierrepont Town Buildings: 7 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Talc-Soapstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Pierrepont MineZinc, LeadPast Producer1979, 1982
West Pierrepont Tourmaline DepositGemstoneOccurrence
Mine Number 1 and MillTalc-SoapstonePast ProducerTalc
Number 2 MineTalc-SoapstonePast ProducerTalc
Unnamed QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Frank Randall Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

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
Zion Episcopal Church and Rectory3.6 miles2003
Hepburn Library of Colton3.7 miles2012
Gardner Cox House5.2 miles1986
Brick Chapel Church and Cemetery5.3 miles2005
Sunday Rock6.1 miles2010
Nathaniel Parmeter House7.1 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82001271 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Lawrence CountyAll 83 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.