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Fine Town Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1916.

From the record

One of 83 National Register listings published here for St. Lawrence County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 91 NY 58, Fine, 13648
  • When was it listed? August 1996
  • Category. building
  • Town. Fine town
  • National Register reference number. 96000829 - 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

1916 to 1948

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Fine Town Hall, surveyed 1948
Topographic sheet covering Fine Town Hall, surveyed 1916

Fires near this property

21 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Fine Town Hall between 2002 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresNew York Forest RangersEDWARDS FIRE
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
6 May 2004Natural2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Fine Town Hall: 10 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
East Pitcairn Fluorite DepositFluorine-Fluorite, ZirconiumOccurrence
East Pitcairn Gypsum DepositGypsum-Anhydrite, ZirconiumOccurrence
Fine DepositFeldspar, QuartzProspect
Folsom Place ProspectIronProspect
Georgiana Slate Iron OccurrenceIronOccurrence
Georgiana Slate OccurrenceIronOccurrence
Green Farm DepositIronPast Producer1885, 1888
Green Farm DepositIronPast Producer
Griffin Park DepositIronOccurrence
Skate Creek DepositIronOccurrence1943

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this property

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fine, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindFine$125,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindFine$20,000Numerous trees and power lines down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFine$10,000Several trees fell on powerlines near Fine and produced some power outages.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindFine$10,000Trees reported down along Route 3 in Fine.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindFine$5,000Numerous trees and utility wires down by thunderstorm winds.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindFine$2,000Report of downed trees with one laying on utility wires on County Rd 77.
September 2007Funnel CloudFine-Funnel cloud reported south of Fine at 340 pm, as well as a few trees downed by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in St. Lawrence County

Maps showing this location

8 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
Edwards Town Hall7.7 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96000829 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.
  • 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.