Built in 1874 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.
From the record
“Bluff Point Light, also known as the Valcour Island Light, on Valcour Island in Lake Champlain was in service from its construction in 1874 until 1930 and was one of the last lighthouses on Lake Champlain to be named. It is now part of Adirondack State Park and operated as a museum by the Clinton County Historical Association, an affiliate of the Adirondack Coast Cultural Alliance (ACCA).”
Wikipedia article Bluff Point Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 53 National Register listings published here for Clinton County · listed in 1993 · category: Building · built in 1874, Italianate architecture.
National Register reference number.93000873- 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
128 since 2001
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Valcour Island Lighthouse
between 2001 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 18 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
70
Arson/incendiarism
18
Debris and open burning
13
Natural
9
Smoking
6
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Recreation and ceremony
3
Other causes
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Valcour Island Lighthouse: 6 past producers, 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Chromium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Peru, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 19 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning.
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.
Trees and wires down in Peru and along Lakeshore Drive in South Plattsburgh. In addition, several airport hangar roofs suffered wind damage and an old DC-3 aircraft was pushed through a chain link fence with damage to fence and aircraft.
An area of low pressure moved into southern Canada during July 3, 1997. The associated cold front moved across northern New York during the late morning and afternoon hours. Showers and thunderstorms preceeded and accompanied these storms and some resulted in locally heavy rain and strong winds. Small hail...generally 1/2 inch or smaller was also reported with a few of the storms.
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.
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.
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.
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