Peekskill, 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 12 of 14 shown

• Drum Hill High Schoollisted 1979
• Ford Administration Buildinglisted 2006
• Nelson Avenue-Fort Hill Historic Districtlisted 2006
• Thomas Nelson Houselisted 2001
• Peekskill Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2005
• Peekskill Freight Depotlisted 2004
• Peekskill Presbyterian Churchlisted 2002
• St. Peter's Episcopal Churchlisted 2003
• Standard Houselisted 2000
• US Post Office-Peekskilllisted 1989
• Van Cortlandt Upper Manor Houselisted 1981
• Beecher-McFadden Estatelisted 1987

Every listing in Westchester County

Peekskill grew from 23,583 to 25,431 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.

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 West Point quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1899 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500, 12 printings
• 1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:48000
• 1941 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Peekskill quadrangle1:24000
• 1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
• 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Peekskill quadrangle1:24000, 6 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 397 fires within 5 miles of Peekskill between 1993 and 2020, burning about 338 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 43 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:

• Finktown
• Roe Park
• Toddville
• Van Cortlandtville
• Annsville
• Crompond

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Peekskill: 20 past producers, 6 occurrences, 6 producers, 5 prospects. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Emery, Clay, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Peekskill in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 960097. 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.