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East White Plains, New York

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Harrison town. It lies in ZIP code area 10604. It lies near Goose Island. The Survey maps it on the Glenville quadrangle.

East White Plains 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 East White Plains, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of East White Plains, surveyed 1892

On record in East White Plains

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 3 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 36 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

883 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 883 fires within 5 miles of East White Plains between 2000 and 2020, burning about 760 acres in total. 59 started naturally. 89 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/undetermined501
Arson/incendiarism89
Smoking80
Recreation and ceremony65
Natural59
Equipment and vehicle use28
Debris and open burning27
Power generation/transmission/distribution21
Misuse of fire by a minor12
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
9 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder 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 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of East White Plains: 1 past producer, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Silver. 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
Lake Street Granite MineGraniteProducer
Lake Street Granite QuarryGranitePast ProducerGranite

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East White Plains in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
September 2010Thunderstorm WindEast White Plains$7,500A large tree and power lines were reported down on Anderson Hill Road in Purchase.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindEast White Plains$5,000Trees, large tree branches and power lines were reported down at the intersection of Upland and Woodcrest Avenues just northeast of White Plains.
July 2025Flash FloodEast White Plains-Multiple vehicles stranded on I 287 and the Taconic Parkway due to flooding.
May 2017Flash FloodEast White Plains-A few roads in White Plains were impassable due to flooding.
December 2014FloodEast White Plains-The Bronx River Pkwy. was closed between exit 23 and exit 21 in White Plains due to flooding.
July 2014Flash FloodEast White Plains-Bloomingdale Rd. was closed in White Plains due to flooding.

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
White Plains0.9 miles39
Sarosca Farm Estates1.4 miles36
North White Plains1.5 miles39
Purchase1.8 miles36
Battle Hill2.0 miles39
Quarry Heights2.1 miles39
Green Farms2.5 miles39
Ridgeway2.6 miles39

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.

Wikidata item Q122548350The 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 949272. 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.