La Farge Retainer Houses

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

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

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

The listing

Address. Main St., S of jct. of Main St. and Ford Rd., Orleans, 13656
When was it listed? August 1997
Category. building
Also known as. Orleans MPS
Town. Orleans town
National Register reference number. 97000941 - 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

108 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of La Farge Retainer Houses between 2002 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 7 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	68
Debris and open burning	20
Natural	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 La Farge Retainer Houses: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Depaulville Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Bach Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Flick Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hunter Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
La Fargville Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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.

1903 USGS Theresa quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1943 USGS Lafargeville quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Theresa quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS La Fargeville quadrangle1:24000
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS La Fargeville quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Gouverneur 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
St. Paul's Episcopal	under 500 feet	1996
La Fargeville United Methodist Church	under 500 feet	1996
La Farge Land Office	0.1 miles	1996
Charles Ford House	0.2 miles	1996
Byron J. Strough House	0.3 miles	1997
Central Garage	0.3 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000941 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.