Double-Span Metal Pratt Truss Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“Double-Span Metal Pratt Truss Bridge is a historic Pratt truss bridge over the Ausable River at Keeseville in Clinton County and Essex County, New York. It was built in 1877 by the Murray Dougal & Company of Milton, Pennsylvania.”
Wikipedia article Double-Span Metal Pratt Truss Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 53 National Register listings published here for Clinton County · listed in 1983 · category: Structure.

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 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. AuSable St., Keeseville, 12944
When was it listed? May 1983
Category. structure
Also known as. Keeseville Village MRA
National Register reference number. 83001665 - 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

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Double-Span Metal Pratt Truss Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 221 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 19 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	84
Arson/incendiarism	19
Natural	12
Debris and open burning	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
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
8 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	RAILROAD #1
26 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
25 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

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 Double-Span Metal Pratt Truss Bridge: 19 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. 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
Mount Bigelow Mine	Garnet	Past Producer	1905, 1914, 1950
Port Kent Beach Sand Deposit	Titanium, Iron	Occurrence
C. B. White Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	1885, 1892
Empire State Granite Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Unknown
Southern Quarry	Granite	Past Producer	1880, 1890
Unnamed Prospect	Granite	Occurrence	1885
Unnamed Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	1885, 1895
Grasshopper Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Martin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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 Keeseville 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
Swing Bridge	0.2 miles	1999
Keeseville Historic District	0.3 miles	1983
Stone Arch Bridge	0.4 miles	1999
AuSable Chasm Bridge	2.0 miles	1999
Old State Road Bridge	2.0 miles	1999
Miller Homestead	4.0 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001665 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.