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Photograph of Stone Arch Bridge
Photograph by Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger), Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Stone Arch 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

“Stone Arch Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge over the Ausable River at Keeseville in Clinton County and Essex County, New York.”

Wikipedia article Stone Arch Bridge (Keeseville, New York), 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. Main St. over AuSable R., Keeseville, 12944
  • When was it listed? November 1999
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. AuSable River Valley Bridges MPS
  • National Register reference number. 99001323 - 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

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Stone Arch Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 221 acres in total. 12 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/undetermined84
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural12
Debris and open burning10
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes1

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
8 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNew York Forest RangersRAILROAD #1
26 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.8 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
25 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Stone Arch Bridge: 13 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mount Bigelow MineGarnetPast Producer1905, 1914, 1950
Port Kent Beach Sand DepositTitanium, IronOccurrence
Southern QuarryGranitePast Producer1880, 1890
Unnamed ProspectGraniteOccurrence1885
C. B. White QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1885, 1892
Empire State Granite Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerUnknown
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1885, 1895
Grasshopper PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Indian DepositIronPast Producer1835, 1865
Jackson MineIronPast Producer1835, 1865

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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Keeseville Historic Districtunder 500 feet1983
Swing Bridge0.1 miles1999
Double-Span Metal Pratt Truss Bridge0.4 miles1983
Double-Span Metal Pratt Truss Bridge0.4 miles1983
AuSable Chasm Bridge1.6 miles1999
Old State Road Bridge1.6 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001323 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clinton CountyAll 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.