Camp Uncas

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Camp Uncas is an Adirondack Great Camp, the second built by William West Durant for his own use. It lies on the shore of 110-acre (45 ha) Lake Mohegan, near Great Camp Sagamore, and was completed in two years.”
Wikipedia article Camp Uncas, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 1987 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. Raquette Lake, Town of Long Lake, 13436
When was it listed? April 1987
Category. district
Also known as. Great Camps of the Adirondacks TR
Town. Long Lake town
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 86002937 - 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

1903 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Camp Uncas, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Camp Uncas, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Camp Uncas between 1995 and 2018, burning about 11 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony	10
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
16 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	SUMNER BROOK FIRE
12 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
23 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
15 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	HIGH ROCK POND FIRE
12 August 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	BUG LAKE FIRE
30 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1903 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:62500 - 13 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1997 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:25000

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
Sagamore Lodge (Boundary Increase)	1.1 miles	1986
Sagamore	1.1 miles	1976
Whelan Camp	3.6 miles	1989
Camp Pine Knot	4.7 miles	1986
Echo Camp	4.8 miles	1986
St. William's Catholic Church	4.9 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002937 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hamilton County	All 24 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.