Carpenter's Flats Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“Carpenter's Flats Bridge is a historic Warren Steel Truss bridge over the Ausable River at AuSable and Peru in Clinton County, New York. It was built by the American Bridge Company in 1941.”
Wikipedia article Carpenter's Flats Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 53 National Register listings published here for Clinton County · listed in 1999 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 9 over AuSable R., AuSable, 12972
When was it listed? November 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. AuSable River Valley Bridges MPS
Town. Peru town
National Register reference number. 99001321 - 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

143 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Carpenter's Flats Bridge between 2000 and 2020, burning about 103 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 19 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	80
Arson/incendiarism	19
Debris and open burning	11
Natural	10
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Smoking	5
Other causes	1

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 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2013	Other causes	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Carpenter's Flats Bridge: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Titanium, Iron. 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	Recorded
Port Kent Beach Sand Deposit	Titanium, Iron	Occurrence
Southern Quarry	Granite	Past Producer	1880, 1890
Unnamed Prospect	Granite	Occurrence	1885
Grasshopper Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Zoli Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Zoli Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1894 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1906 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1939 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Plattsburgh quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1966 USGS Keeseville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Lake Champlain North 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
Delaware and Hudson Railroad Bridge	0.6 miles	1999
Delaware and Hudson Railroad Bridge	0.7 miles	1999
AuSable Chasm Bridge	2.5 miles	1999
Old State Road Bridge	2.5 miles	1999
Lyon Street School	3.5 miles	2013
Heyworth-Mason Industrial Building	4.0 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001321 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clinton County	All 53 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.