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North Pelham, New York

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Pelham town. It lies in ZIP code area 10803. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle.

North Pelham within Westchester County

Then and now

1891 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of North Pelham, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of North Pelham, surveyed 1891

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On record in North Pelham

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

15 surveys from 42 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

1,273 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,273 fires within 5 miles of North Pelham between 2000 and 2020, burning about 582 acres in total. 86 started naturally. 99 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/undetermined854
Smoking102
Arson/incendiarism99
Natural86
Recreation and ceremony64
Equipment and vehicle use31
Debris and open burning20
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes4

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 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2016Recreation and ceremony6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Missing 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

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
Chester Heights0.5 miles42
Pelham0.6 miles42
Huguenot Park0.7 miles42
Pinckney Heights0.7 miles42
Vernon Park0.9 miles42
Chester Hill Park0.9 miles42
Elmsmere1.0 miles42
Rochelle Park1.1 miles42

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2062695. 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.