Wilcox Farmhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Wilcox Farmhouse is a historic home located at Three Mile Bay in Jefferson County, New York. It was built about 1839 and is a gable ell limestone house consisting of three-by-four-bay gable front block, a three-bay-square lateral wing, and a 1-story two-by-four-bay anterior wing extending behind the lateral wing.”
Wikipedia article Wilcox Farmhouse (Three Mile Bay, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. Carrying Place Rd., Three Mile Bay, 13693
When was it listed? September 1990
Category. building
Also known as. Lyme MRA
Town. Lyme town
National Register reference number. 90001331 - 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 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Wilcox Farmhouse between 2001 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. 1 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	45
Arson/incendiarism	8
Debris and open burning	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	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 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
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
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
14 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1895 USGS Cape Vincent quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1942 USGS Cape Vincent South quadrangle1:24000
1942 USGS Cape Vincent South quadrangle1:31680
1944 USGS Cape Vincent quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Kingston quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Cape Vincent South 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
District School No. 3	1.1 miles	1990
Row, The	3.0 miles	1990
Taft House	3.1 miles	1990
Taylor Boathouse	3.1 miles	1990
Remy Dezengremel House	3.2 miles	1985
Menzo Wheeler House	3.3 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001331 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.