Croton Falls, New York

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.

1892 1986

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Gerard Crane Houselisted 1985 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 1892 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1928 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1944 USGS Croton Falls quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Croton Falls quadrangle1:24000
• 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Croton Falls quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 423 fires within 5 miles of Croton Falls between 2000 and 2020, burning about 359 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 51 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Butlerville
• Heritage Hills
• Lake Lincolndale
• Granite Springs
• Horton Estates
• Lake Purdy

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Croton Falls: 22 past producers, 5 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Copper, Sulfur, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Croton Falls in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 6 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.

Every storm recorded in Westchester County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 947824. 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.