Union Hall

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

From the record

“Union Hall is a historic Grange meeting hall located in the hamlet of Point Peninsula, Lyme, Jefferson County, New York. It was built in 1908, and is a two-story, wood-frame building.”
Wikipedia article Union Hall (Chaumont, 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. S. Shore Rd., Chaumont, 13693
When was it listed? September 1990
Category. building
Also known as. Lyme MRA
Town. Lyme town
National Register reference number. 90001333 - 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

47 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Union Hall between 2001 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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	31
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
24 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 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
11 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2004	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
United Methodist Church	under 500 feet	1990
Lance Farm	2.7 miles	1990
Getman Farmhouse	3.4 miles	1990
Point Salubrious Historic District	4.1 miles	1990
Wilcox Farmhouse	4.1 miles	1990
District School No. 3	4.5 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001333 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.