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Pleasantside, New York

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cortlandt town. It lies in ZIP code area 10567. It lies near Blue Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Peekskill quadrangle.

Pleasantside 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 Pleasantside, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Pleasantside, surveyed 1892

On record in Pleasantside

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 43 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

339 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 339 fires within 5 miles of Pleasantside between 1993 and 2020, burning about 285 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 35 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/undetermined219
Arson/incendiarism35
Natural21
Smoking20
Equipment and vehicle use14
Debris and open burning12
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony4

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
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
29 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2016Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresNew York Forest RangersSOUTH MOUNTAIN PASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Pleasantside: 19 past producers, 6 producers, 5 occurrences, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cotton Rock Stilbite DepositZeolitesOccurrence
Nelson Property DepositCorundumProspect
Peekskill AreaTitanium, Metal, Iron, AluminumOccurrence
Peekskill Area ProspectTitanium, Aluminum, IronProspect
Phillips MineMolybdenum, UraniumOccurrenceReplacement
Phillips MineSulfur-Pyrite, Iron, UraniumPast Producer1865, 1880
Phillips Mine-Camp Smith AreaCobalt, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, UraniumPast Producer1866
Phillips Sulfide, Magnetite MineIron, Uranium, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, SulfurPast Producer
Phillips Sulfide, Magnetite, and Uranium MineIron, Sulfur, Copper, Nickel, Uranium, Gold, SilverPast Producer1839, 1865
Oregon Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasantside in 1 storm report in 2025: 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 2025Thunderstorm WindPleasantside$1,000DOT Tree down across Route 129. All lanes blocked.

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
Furnace Woods1.0 miles43
Finktown1.1 miles43
Toddville1.2 miles43
Peekskill1.6 miles43
Crompond2.0 miles41
Roe Park2.1 miles43
Buchanan2.5 miles43
Montrose2.6 miles43

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 Q122556540The 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 960745. 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.