Sherman Park, 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 10594. It stands on Nanny Hagen Brook. The Survey maps it on the Ossining 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 Sherman Park
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
St. John's Episcopal Churchlisted 2017 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 40 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 Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1902 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
- 1936 USGS Ossining quadrangle1:24000
- 1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Ossining quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Ossining quadrangle1:25000
- 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Ossining quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Ossining quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
474 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 474 fires within 5 miles of Sherman Park between 2000 and 2020, burning about 410 acres in total. 71 started naturally. 25 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 | 220 |
| Natural | 71 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 43 |
| Debris and open burning | 35 |
| Smoking | 31 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
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 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.8 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 5 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 September 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 September 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 4 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
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 Sherman Park: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armonk Plant | Peat | Past Producer | Peat | |
| Ossining Area | Vanadium, Lead | Occurrence | Vanadinite | |
| Sing Sing Ag Mine | Lead, Silver, Iron, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Sing Sing Silver Mine | Lead, Copper, Silver, Iron, Chromium, Phosphorus-Phosphates | Past Producer | Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Silver | |
| Sparta Copper Deposit | Copper, Lead | Occurrence | ||
| Ackerman's Limonite Mine | Iron | Past Producer | Limonite | |
| Ackerman's Limonite Mine | Iron | Past Producer | Residual | |
| Ackerman's Limonite Mine | Iron | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thornwood | 0.3 miles | 39 | |
| Pleasantville | 1.0 miles | 40 | |
| Hawthorne | 1.7 miles | 39 | |
| Graham | 1.9 miles | 39 | |
| Mount Pleasant | 2.3 miles | 39 | |
| Chappaqua | 2.3 miles | 40 | |
| Buckhout Corners | 2.4 miles | 40 | |
| Briarcliff Manor | 2.9 miles | 40 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 965085. 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.














