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Pound Ridge, New York

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pound Ridge town. It lies in ZIP code area 10576. It lies near Burial Hill. The Survey maps it on the Pound Ridge quadrangle.

Pound Ridge 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 Pound Ridge, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Pound Ridge, surveyed 1892

On record in Pound Ridge

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 1 record

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

127 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Pound Ridge between 2000 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined53
Natural21
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use11
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Smoking7
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
23 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2019Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 August 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pound Ridge: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Feldspar, Quartz. 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
Hobby QuarriesFeldspar, QuartzPast Producer
Baylis Rock QuarryStonePast Producer
Baylis Rock QuarryStonePast Producer
Kinkel Gneiss Rock QuarriesStoneProducer
Kinkel Gneiss Rock QuarriesStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pound Ridge in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 5 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 2020Thunderstorm WindPound Ridge$8,000Multiple pictures of trees and power lines down across Route 137 near Pound Ridge Town Park.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindPound Ridge$7,000Numerous trees and wires down on the north side of town.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPound Ridge$2,000Tree and power pole down on NY 137 between NY 124 and Upper Shad Road.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindPound Ridge$750Route 172 between Bedford and Pound Ridge was blocked by a fallen tree.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindPound Ridge-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
Horseshoe Hill0.9 miles36
Sarles Corners1.7 miles36
Scotts Corners1.9 miles36
East Woods2.3 miles36
Boutonville3.4 miles41
Lewisboro3.4 miles36
Vista3.5 miles36
Bedford3.7 miles35

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 961064. 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.