Whelan Camp

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Whelan Camp is a historic late period Adirondack Great Camp and national historic district located on Raquette Lake at Long Lake in Hamilton County, New York. The district includes four contributing buildings and one contributing structure.”
Wikipedia article Whelan Camp, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

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 4 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Mick Rd., Long Lake, 13436
When was it listed? December 1989
Category. district
Town. Long Lake town
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 89002089 - 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 Whelan Camp, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Whelan Camp, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

13 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Whelan Camp between 2002 and 2018, burning about 3 acres in total. 2 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	7
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	2
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
8 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	HENS & CHICKENS
7 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	NORTH POINT
5 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	MARION RIVER
23 August 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	UC FIRE
23 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	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
11 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this property

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Long Lake, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Long Lake	$500,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Long Lake	$5,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Long Lake	$5,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Long Lake	$5,000	no account filed
July 2024	Flash Flood	Long Lake	$500	New York Department of Highways reported the closure of Route 30 in both directions due to water flowing across the roadway. Additionally, a video taken by a member of the public showed water flowing rapidly out of Minnow Pond, adjacent to Route 30, crossing the roadway.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Long Lake	-	Local law enforcement reported a tree down on McIntyre Boulevard.
March 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Long Lake	-	Trees were downed 2 miles west-northwest of Long Lake.
March 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Long Lake	-	Numerous trees were uprooted with wires also downed along Route 30 in Long Lake.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Long Lake	-	Trees were reported down.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Long Lake	-	Trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Long Lake.
April 2011	Flood	Long Lake	-	Route 30 was closed due to high water in the Hamlet of Long Lake between Route 28 and Rice Road.
May 2011	Hail	Long Lake	-	Golf ball size hail was reported during a thunderstorm at the Lake Eaton Campground.
May 2011	Hail	Long Lake	-	Half dollar size hail was reported in Long Lake during a thunderstorm.
May 2011	Flood	Long Lake	-	Route 30 in was closed due to high water in the Hamlet of Long Lake between Route 28 and Rice Road.
August 2007	Hail	Long Lake	-	Nickel size hail was reported at the Forked Lake Public Campground near Long Lake.
May 2007	Hail	Long Lake	-	A thunderstorm produced hail estimated at 1.50 inches in diameter at Long Lake.
May 2006	Hail	Long Lake	-	A trained spotter reported three-quarter-inch hail in Long Lake.

Every storm 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 coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, 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
Echo Camp	1.5 miles	1986
Camp Pine Knot	1.6 miles	1986
St. William's Catholic Church	1.7 miles	2005
Sagamore	3.2 miles	1976
Sagamore Lodge (Boundary Increase)	3.2 miles	1986
Camp Uncas	3.6 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89002089 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.
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.