Photograph of Adsit Log Cabin — Photograph by Bryan Nelson Elder, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Adsit Log House

Built in 1778. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“The Adsit Log Cabin in Willsboro, New York, has long been said to have been built by Samuel Adsit in 1778 and is believed to be one of the oldest log cabins in the United States that still exists in its original location. Adsit was an American Revolutionary War veteran who built the cabin for his family of 16 when he moved to Willsboro Point at some time following the war; the town historian's records suggest that this was soon after 1790.”
Wikipedia article Adsit Log Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1778.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Point Rd. N of Ligonier Pt., Willsboro, 12996
When was it listed? August 1992
Category. building
Town. Willsboro town
When was it built? 1778
National Register reference number. 92001053 - 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

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Adsit Log House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 99 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
3 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
17 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 August 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
18 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 July 1995	Natural	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
7 June 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
25 June 1995	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Adsit Log House: 14 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Garnet. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Interpace/ Willsboro, N.Y.	Wollastonite, Garnet	Unknown
Irvin Calkins Graphite Prospect	Graphite	Prospect
Unnamed Quarry	Stone	Past Producer	Surface
Unnamed Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Elsworth Diopside Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Prospect
Mount Bigelow Mine	Garnet	Past Producer	1905, 1914, 1950
Northern Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	1880, 1890
Jacques Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Jacques Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sheehan Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms near this property

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willsboro, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 11 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
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$25,000	Damage to Willsboro Bay Marina as well as several large trees.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$20,000	Several trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds across Willsboro.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$15,000	no account filed
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$10,000	Multiple trees reported downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$10,000	Several reports of trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$5,000	Trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$5,000	Several trees up to half foot in diameter downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$5,000	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$5,000	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Willsboro	$5,000	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Willsboro	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Essex 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.

1895 USGS Willsboro quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1941 USGS Willsboro quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Willsboro quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Willsboro quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1980 USGS Willsboro Bay quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Lake Champlain South 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
Ligonier Point Historic District	0.3 miles	2013
Edgewater Farm	1.4 miles	1988
Flat Rock Camp	3.1 miles	2006
Willsboro School, The	3.8 miles	2010
Willsboro Congregational Church	4.1 miles	1984
Kessel Park Inn	4.3 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001053 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Essex County	All 114 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.