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History · Au Sable Forks

39% of Au Sable Forks’ homes were built before 1940

1 place in town is on the National Register. Below: 4 old photos and papers from 1869 on.

1on the National Register
39%homes built before 1940
4old photos & papers
1famous people
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From Au Sable Forks’ archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Au Sable Forks’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 4 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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Start Au Sable Forks’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Au Sable Forks’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewAu Sable (Township); Birminghami Falls …: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Au Sable Forks, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Au Sable Forks yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Au Sable Forks is a census-designated place which straddles both Clinton and Essex counties in New York State, United States. The northern half of the community, within Clinton County, is listed as the Au Sable Forks census-designated place (CDP). As of the 2020 census, Au Sable Forks had a population of 509.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 559 to 509 (-9%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Au Sable Forks, 1869 to 1962

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1869In the archiveAu Sable (Township); Birminghami Falls (Village); Au Sable Subscriber's Business Director…
  3. 20th century
  4. 1935Born herePaul Savage is born here
  5. 1962In the archiveConvair SM-65F Atlas 100 556 SMS Site 6
By decade

Au Sable Forks, decade by decade

2 decades in the archive, from the 1860s to the 1960s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1860s1 item
Au Sable (Township); Birminghami Falls (Village); Au Sable Subscriber's Business Directory.; Black Brook Subscriber's B…1869Au Sable (Township); Birminghami Falls (Village); Au …
1960s3 items
Convair SM-65F Atlas 100 556 SMS Site 6c. 1962Convair SM-65F Atlas 100 556 SMS Site 6MapDETAIL, FROM INTERIOR OF DECK, VIEW TO EAST - Rolling Hill Mill Road Bridge, Grove Road, spanning east branch of AuSabl…1968DETAIL, FROM INTERIOR OF DECK, VIEW TO EAST - Rolling…ELEVATION, WEST PORTAL, VIEW TO EAST - Rolling Hill Mill Road Bridge, Grove Road, spanning east branch of AuSable River…1968ELEVATION, WEST PORTAL, VIEW TO EAST - Rolling Hill M…
1970s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Today2 recent
Au Sable Forks, NY2015Au Sable Forks, NYRockwell Kent's Asgaard Farm2008Rockwell Kent's Asgaard Farm
Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Au Sable (Township); Birminghami Falls (Village); Au Sable Subscriber's Business Directory.; Black Brook Subscriber's B…
Retake this viewAu Sable (Township); Birminghami Falls (Village); Au Sable Subscriber's Business Directory.; Black Brook Subscriber's B…, 1869

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Au Sable Forks’ page.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Au Sable Forks

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Jay8 historic placesABlack Brook1 historic placeA−

Questions about Au Sable Forks’ history

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What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6) and Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.