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Pleasantville, New York

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mount Pleasant town. It lies in ZIP code area 10570. It lies near The Flats. The Survey maps it on the Ossining quadrangle. 7,513 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 292 feet above sea level.

Pleasantville 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 Pleasantville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Pleasantville, surveyed 1892

On record in Pleasantville

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Pleasantville grew from 7,019 to 7,513 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.

YearPeople Change
20107,019
20207,513+494 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 40 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

534 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 534 fires within 5 miles of Pleasantville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 459 acres in total. 78 started naturally. 28 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/undetermined259
Natural78
Recreation and ceremony48
Debris and open burning37
Smoking30
Arson/incendiarism28
Equipment and vehicle use27
Power generation/transmission/distribution20
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Pleasantville: 6 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Vanadium, Lead, Copper, Silver, Iron. 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
Armonk PlantPeatPast ProducerPeat
Ossining AreaVanadium, LeadOccurrenceVanadinite
Sing Sing Ag MineLead, Silver, Iron, CopperPast Producer
Sing Sing Silver MineLead, Copper, Silver, Iron, Chromium, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast ProducerChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Silver
Sparta Copper DepositCopper, LeadOccurrence
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasantville in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning, 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
June 2008LightningPleasantville$200,000Lightning struck the upper portion of a condo complex, ignited fires, and displaced at least 8 families.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPleasantville$50,000The National Weather Service in coordination with Westchester County |Office of Emergency Management performed a storm survey in Westchester County. ||The survey determined that a storm produced a swath of straight line wind damage from Pleasantville to Chappaqua with wind gusts up to 80 mph. ||At Chappaqua, Kipp Street near the intersection of Quaker Road (Route 120) was partially closed due to downed large tree branches and several large downed trees, some into houses. Peak wind gusts were estimated at 60 to 70 mph. ||At Pleasantville, where the most significant thunderstorm wind damage occurred, peak wind gusts were estimated at 70 to 80 mph between 300 and 500 Washington Avenue. Several large trees and branches were downed, including into houses, with a few tree tops snapped off. Damage to gutters and backyard decks occurred as well due to falling trees.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindPleasantville$7,500Numerous trees were reported down throughout Pleasantville, including some down on wires, causing sporadic power outages.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindPleasantville$5,000Multiple trees were reported down across town.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindPleasantville$3,000Multiple trees down on highway 100 north of Chappaqua Road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPleasantville$3,000A tree down on wires on Old Sleepy Hollow Road.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindPleasantville$2,000Trees reported down with time estimated by radar.
July 2019Flash FloodPleasantville-All southbound lanes closed on the Saw Mill River Parkway due to flooding south of Grant Street (Exit 30) in the vicinity of Pleasantville Road (CR 106) in Mount Pleasant.
July 2013Flash FloodPleasantville-The Saw Mill River Pkwy. was closed in Hawthorne between the Taconic Pkwy. and Manville Rd. due to flooding.
May 2011FloodPleasantville-The Saw Mill River Pkwy. around Marble Ave. near the Taconic State Pkwy., and the Bronx River Pkwy. from the County Center in White Plains south to the Sprain Brook Pkwy. were closed due to flooding. Two water rescues were performed on the Bronx River Pkwy., one of which was at Pondfield Rd. in Bronxville.
July 2011HailPleasantville-Hail was observed on the Taconic Parkway in Briarcliff Manor.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindPleasantville-Thunderstorm winds damaged trees and power lines in Briarcliff Manor.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindPleasantville-no account filed

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
Thornwood1.0 miles39
Sherman Park1.0 miles40
Graham1.1 miles39
Buckhout Corners1.4 miles40
Hawthorne1.8 miles39
Briarcliff Manor1.9 miles40
Chappaqua2.4 miles40
Mount Pleasant2.5 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.

Wikipedia article on PleasantvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2430755The 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 960746. 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.