Three Mile Bay Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Three Mile Bay Historic District is a national historic district located at Lyme near Chaumont in Jefferson County, New York. The district includes six contributing buildings.”
Wikipedia article Three Mile Bay Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1990 · 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 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Church and Depot Sts., Three Mile Bay, Chaumont, 13622
When was it listed? September 1990
Category. district
Also known as. Lyme MRA
Town. Lyme town
National Register reference number. 90001327 - 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

67 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Three Mile Bay Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined	39
Arson/incendiarism	8
Debris and open burning	8
Natural	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
26 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chaumont, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaumont	$15,000	no account filed
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaumont	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2005	Hail	Chaumont	$10,000	no account filed
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaumont	$1,000	Trees were reported to be down on Three Mile Point Road.

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 coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1900 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1942 USGS Chaumont quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Kingston quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Chaumont quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Cape Vincent 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
Stone Shop, Old	under 500 feet	1990
Menzo Wheeler House	under 500 feet	1990
Taylor Boathouse	0.2 miles	1990
Taft House	0.3 miles	1990
Row, The	0.4 miles	1990
District School No. 3	2.2 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001327 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 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.
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.