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Photograph of Camp Dudley Road Historic District
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Camp Dudley Road Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“Camp Dudley Road Historic District is a national historic district located at Westport, in Essex County, New York. The district contains 131 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing structure.”

Wikipedia article Camp Dudley Road Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 1993 · category: District.

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

The listing

Then and now

1894 to 1999

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Camp Dudley Road Historic District, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet covering Camp Dudley Road Historic District, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

44 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Camp Dudley Road Historic District between 1996 and 2020, burning about 46 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning8
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
18 August 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersGIANT RIDGE
18 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreVermont Division of ForestryADDISON
7 July 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Camp Dudley Road Historic District: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, Metal, Iron, Titanium, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Split Rock MineTitanium, Metal, Iron, VanadiumOccurrence
Split Rock MineIron, Titanium, VanadiumPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, DimensionPast ProducerSedimentary
Westport AreaTitanium, Metal, IronOccurrence
Westport Area ProspectTitanium, IronProspect

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms near this property

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westport, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2022Thunderstorm WindWestport$125,000Extensive tree damage in Westport, including Stevenson road. Numerous trees snapped or uprooted onto utility lines, homes and other structures. Utility reported at least 40 poles needed to be replaced.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindWestport$25,000Barn roof torn off along with significant tree and light structural damage at Camp Dudley.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWestport$25,000Trees downed throughout Westport, including Main Street near the County Fairgrounds. Trees and power lines down along Route 9N/22.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWestport$10,000Power lines and trees down along Route 22.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWestport$10,000Multiple trees down along Lakeshore Drive.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWestport$10,000Several trees and branches reported down along Route 9N just south of Westport.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWestport$5,000Tree on powerlines on Ledge Hill Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWestport$5,000Trees downed by thunderstorm winds on Worman Road.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindWestport$5,000Large maple tree and other smaller trees down.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindWestport$5,000Numerous tree branches and several trees down...including damage to a vehicle along Route 22 just south of Westport.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWestport$5,000Powerlines and large limbs were blown down by thunderstorm winds in Westport.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWestport$5,000A warm front moved northeast through northern New York during the early morning hours of July 9th resulting in severe thunderstorms across parts of the area. Thunderstorm winds downed powerlines in Gouverneur and trees and powerlines in Wadhams and Westport. In Canton lightning started a fire which destroyed a garage and three cars.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindWestport$3,000no account filed
May 2015Thunderstorm WindWestport$1,000Several tree branches snapped by thunderstorm winds.
May 2015HailWestport-Quarter size hail reported.

Every storm recorded in Essex County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93001136 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Essex CountyAll 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.