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.
Then and now
1892 to 1986The 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.


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
Bush-Lyon Homesteadlisted 1982
Capitol Theaterlisted 1984
Life Savers Buildinglisted 1985
Putnam and Mellor Engine and Hose Company Firehouselisted 1983
St. Peter's Episcopal Churchlisted 2006
US Post Office-Port Chesterlisted 1989
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 36 printed sheetsMatched 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 Stamford quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:62500
- 1899 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:62500, 13 printings
- 1944 USGS Glenville quadrangle1:24000
- 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Glenville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Glenville quadrangle1:31680
- 1960 USGS Glenville quadrangle1:24000, 4 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
Fires near this place
277 since 2000Regional 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/undetermined | 151 |
| Smoking | 44 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 23 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 20 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christiano Oak Ridge Diorite Gneiss Rock Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | 1833 | |
| Christiano Hamilton Avenue Diorite Gneiss Rock Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | 1873 | |
| Ritch Diorite Gneiss Rock Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | Unknown | |
| Voorhis Diorite Gneiss Rock Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Christiano Hamilton Avenue Quarry | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Chritiano Oak Ridge Quarry | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Ritch Quarry | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Voorhis Quarry | Granite | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Chester | $3,000 | A few trees were reported down in Port Chester. |
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | Port 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 1997 | Lightning | Port Chester | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purdys Grove | 0.6 miles | 34 | |
| Rye Brook | 1.5 miles | 36 | |
| Limerick (historical) | 1.6 miles | 34 | |
| Rye | 1.7 miles | 34 | |
| Dublin | 2.1 miles | 34 | |
| Sunset Ridge | 2.8 miles | 34 | |
| Milton | 3.0 miles | 34 | |
| Fenmore Park | 3.0 miles | 34 |
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.












