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Scarsdale, New York

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Scarsdale town. It lies in ZIP code area 10583. It lies near Fishs Hill. The Survey maps it on the White Plains quadrangle. 18,253 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 217 feet above sea level.

Scarsdale 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 Scarsdale, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Scarsdale, surveyed 1892

On record in Scarsdale

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

Population over time

2 figures

Scarsdale grew from 17,166 to 18,253 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
201017,166
202018,253+1,087 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 39 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

977 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 977 fires within 5 miles of Scarsdale between 2000 and 2020, burning about 861 acres in total. 68 started naturally. 88 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/undetermined548
Smoking126
Arson/incendiarism88
Natural68
Recreation and ceremony68
Debris and open burning27
Equipment and vehicle use25
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Scarsdale: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Molybdenum, Rhenium, Tungsten, Tantalum, Silver. 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
(Facility) Chester Metals Division RefinerySilverPlant
Dobbs Ferry PlantMolybdenum, Rhenium, Tungsten, TantalumProducer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scarsdale in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 6 flash flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death. 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
September 2021Flash FloodScarsdale1 killedThe body of a man was found in Saxon Woods Park in White Plains after he exited his stranded car and was swept away by flood waters.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindScarsdale$3,000A few trees were reported down in Scarsdale.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindScarsdale$1,500A three foot diameter tree was downed at Penn Boulevard and Weaver Street.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindScarsdale$750One inch tree limbs broken and shingles blown off.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindScarsdale$500A large tree limb was reported down in Scarsdale.
July 2021Flash FloodScarsdale-The southbound Hutchinson River Parkway was closed due to flooding at Exit 13 in White Plains.
August 2008Flash FloodScarsdale-Westchester Office of Emergency Management reported that there was up to 5 feet of standing water on some side streets in New Rochelle.
June 2008Flash FloodScarsdale-The Bronx River Parkway was closed in both directions between Harney Road and the Sprain Brook Parkway.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindScarsdale-Trees and power lines down in Scarsdale and Tarrytown.
August 2011HailScarsdale-no account filed
August 2011HailScarsdale-no account filed
June 2011HailScarsdale-no account filed
May 2002Funnel CloudScarsdale-no account filed
June 1998Flash FloodScarsdale-no account filed
July 1997Flash FloodScarsdale-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
Murray Hill0.4 miles42
Greenacres0.5 miles39
Fox Meadow0.5 miles39
Green Farms0.6 miles39
Ridgeway1.2 miles39
Hartsdale1.2 miles39
Secor Gardens1.4 miles42
Scarsdale Downs1.5 miles42

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 ScarsdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2300959The 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 977410. 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.