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Port Chester, New York

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rye town. It lies in ZIP code area 10573. It lies near Fox Island (historical). The Survey maps it on the Glenville quadrangle.

Port Chester 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 Port Chester, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Port Chester, surveyed 1892

On record in Port Chester

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 6 records

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

277 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Port Chester between 2000 and 2020, burning about 202 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined151
Smoking44
Arson/incendiarism23
Recreation and ceremony20
Natural16
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 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 Port Chester: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Dimension, Stone. 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
Christiano Oak Ridge Diorite Gneiss Rock QuarryStonePast Producer1833
Christiano Hamilton Avenue Diorite Gneiss Rock QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer1873
Ritch Diorite Gneiss Rock QuarryStone, DimensionPast ProducerUnknown
Voorhis Diorite Gneiss Rock QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Christiano Hamilton Avenue QuarryGranitePast Producer
Chritiano Oak Ridge QuarryGranitePast Producer
Ritch QuarryGranitePast Producer
Voorhis QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Chester in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2011: 1 lightning, 1 flash flood, 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPort Chester$3,000A few trees were reported down in Port Chester.
August 2008Flash FloodPort Chester-Approximately 20 inches of standing water was reported on Fox Island Rd. in Port Chester. Basements of residences on Midland Ave. in Rye were also flooded with water. The ASOS at Westchester County Airport in White Plains recorded 1.39 inches of rain.
June 1997LightningPort Chester-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
Purdys Grove0.6 miles34
Rye Brook1.5 miles36
Limerick (historical)1.6 miles34
Rye1.7 miles34
Dublin2.1 miles34
Sunset Ridge2.8 miles34
Milton3.0 miles34
Fenmore Park3.0 miles34

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 977392. 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.