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Joseph Docteur House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Joseph Docteur House is a historic home and farm complex located at Cape Vincent in Jefferson County, New York. The limestone farmhouse was built about 1847 and has two sections: a main block and a 1-storey wooden rear wing.”

Wikipedia article Joseph Docteur House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Docteur, Joseph, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Rosiere Rd., Cape Vincent, 13618
  • When was it listed? September 1985
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Cape Vincent Town and Village MRA
  • Town. Cape Vincent town
  • National Register reference number. 85002460 - 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

56 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Joseph Docteur House between 2001 and 2020, burning about 98 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Debris and open burning2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2016Equipment and vehicle use6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Joseph Docteur House: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Cape Vincent QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Bombard PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
St Lawrence PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cape Vincent, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCape Vincent$15,000no account filed
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCape Vincent$10,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCape Vincent$5,000Trees and powerlines downed in Cape Vincent.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindCape Vincent$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCape Vincent$2,000Trees down to the southwest of Cape Vincent.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

6 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
Remy Dezengremel House1.6 miles1985
Claude Vautrin House1.8 miles1985
Warren Wilson House2.2 miles1985
Xavier Chevalier House2.7 miles1985
Reuter Dyer House2.9 miles1985
Row, The3.0 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85002460 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.
  • 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.