[5] Basselin is buried in a private family plot along Main Street, next to the village library, which once served as the opera house.

The fire started next to where Stumps Tavern now sits along Main and Mechanic and engulfed most of the village, even burning down the massive Catholic church and divinity school.

The village was a center of the pure maple syrup industry before a microburst in the mid-1990s which brought extremely high winds, destroying many of the older, larger trees.

Croghan is popular with avid outdoorsmen from throughout the country who visit the area in the summer for fishing and camping, in the fall for hunting, and in the winter for sledding.

Croghan is located northeast of the center of Lewis County at the junction of New York State Routes 126 and 812.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.42 square miles (1.1 km2), all land.

The American Maple Museum, located on Main Street, was formerly the Father Leo Memorial School.