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Photograph of Waddington Historic District
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Waddington Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“Waddington Historic District is a national historic district located at Waddington in St. Paul's Episcopal Church (1816), Town Hall (1884), Hepburn Library (1919), and homes dating back to the 1820s.”

Wikipedia article Waddington Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for St. Lawrence County · listed in 1992 · 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 11 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jct. of NY 37 and La Grasse St., Waddington, 13694
  • When was it listed? May 1992
  • Category. district
  • Town. Waddington town
  • National Register reference number. 92000457 - 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

1905 to 1948

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Waddington Historic District, surveyed 1948
Topographic sheet covering Waddington Historic District, surveyed 1905

Fires near this property

93 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Waddington Historic District between 2003 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined57
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this property

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waddington, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 3 injuries. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1998LightningWaddington3 hurt, $10,000no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWaddington$35,000Several trees and wires down, including on a house in the Waddington vicinity.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindWaddington$25,000Several trees and power lines downed by thunderstorms winds between Waddington and Massena along Route 37.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWaddington$25,000Powerlines and trees down along Route 37 as well as County Road 28 Waddington, Lisbon and Ogdensburg.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWaddington$25,000Reports of numerous trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds which have caused blocked and closed roads.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindWaddington$20,000Reports of several trees and power lines down in the Waddington vicinity.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindWaddington$15,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindWaddington$10,000Boat flipped and trees/branches down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWaddington$10,000Multiple power lines down and sign blown onto vehicle.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWaddington$2,000Trees ands wires downed by thunderstorm winds on James street.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWaddington$2,000Several trees downed by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in St. Lawrence County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

Listed places nearby

1 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Chase Mills Inn6.1 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92000457 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Lawrence CountyAll 83 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.