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Ardsley, New York

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenburgh town. It lies in ZIP code area 10502. It lies near Washington Hill. The Survey maps it on the White Plains quadrangle. 5,079 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 210 feet above sea level.

Ardsley within Westchester County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ardsley, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Ardsley, surveyed 1892

Population over time

2 figures

Ardsley grew from 4,452 to 5,079 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20104,452
20205,079+627 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 39 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

904 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 904 fires within 5 miles of Ardsley between 2000 and 2020, burning about 787 acres in total. 68 started naturally. 82 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/undetermined547
Arson/incendiarism82
Smoking74
Natural68
Recreation and ceremony65
Equipment and vehicle use24
Debris and open burning17
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Other causes3

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
9 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2003Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ardsley: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum, Rhenium, Tungsten, Tantalum. 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
(Facility) Chester Metals Division RefinerySilverPlant
Dobbs Ferry PlantMolybdenum, Rhenium, Tungsten, TantalumProducer
Sparkill Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Sparkill PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ardsley in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2013: 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013Thunderstorm WindArdsley$1,000Multiple trees were reported down across the town of Ardsley.
May 2013Flash FloodArdsley-Heavy rain caused flooding in a home on Bramble Brook Rd. in Ardsley.
December 2011FloodArdsley-The Saw Mill River Pkwy. was closed between Farragut Pkwy. and Ashford Ave. in Hastings-On-Hudson due to flooding.
July 2002HailArdsley-A spotter reported nickel size hail.

Every storm recorded in Westchester County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Chauncey0.9 miles39
Woodlands1.0 miles39
Worthington1.5 miles39
Dobbs Ferry1.6 miles39
Ardsley-on-Hudson1.7 miles39
Greenville1.7 miles42
Mount Hope2.0 miles42
Cotswold2.0 miles42

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on ArdsleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458180The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942544. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.