Photograph of Clayton Historic District — Photograph by Stephen Schweitzer, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Clayton Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“The Clayton Historic District is a designated historic district in Clayton, New York. It was originally listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, with its boundaries expanded in 1997.”
Wikipedia article Clayton Historic District (Clayton, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1997 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 335, 403, 409, 413, 419, and 435 Riverside Dr., Clayton, 13624
When was it listed? May 1997
Category. district
Town. Clayton town
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 97000424 - 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

56 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Clayton Historic District (Boundary Increase) between 2002 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 11 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	36
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	2

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
5 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2008	Natural	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Clayton Historic District (Boundary Increase): 6 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. 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
Acton Island Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Clayton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Clayton Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Three Mile Bay Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Bach Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Carlisle Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Clayton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Crystal Spring Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Flick Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lyme Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clayton, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	$40,000	no account filed
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	$20,000	Law enforcement reported utility poles and lines down.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	$5,000	Trees and wires down.
July 2006	Hail	Clayton	$5,000	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	$5,000	no account filed
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	$2,000	Trees and wires were downed.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	$2,000	Trees and wires were reported down.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	$1,000	Trees were reported down.
July 2010	Hail	Clayton	-	Winds were estimated to 60 mph as well.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1900 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1942 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Kingston quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Cape Vincent 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
Capt. Simon Johnston House	under 500 feet	1982
Clayton Historic District	0.1 miles	1985
Fairview Manor	2.1 miles	2007
George T. Robinson House	2.1 miles	2017
Grindstone Island Upper Schoolhouse	2.9 miles	2012
Rock Island Light Station	4.3 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000424 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 144 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.