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Tarrytown, New York

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenburgh town. It lies in ZIP code area 10591. It lies near Tappan Hill. The Survey maps it on the White Plains quadrangle. 11,860 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 121 feet above sea level.

Tarrytown 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 Tarrytown, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Tarrytown, surveyed 1892

On record in Tarrytown

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 10 records

Population over time

2 figures

Tarrytown grew from 11,277 to 11,860 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
201011,277
202011,860+583 (+5%)

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

743 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 743 fires within 5 miles of Tarrytown between 2000 and 2020, burning about 965 acres in total. 77 started naturally. 52 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/undetermined425
Natural77
Smoking59
Recreation and ceremony55
Arson/incendiarism52
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use26
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Misuse of fire by a minor4
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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2003Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Missing 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

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Tarrytown: 7 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Dobbs Ferry PlantMolybdenum, Rhenium, Tungsten, TantalumProducer
Sing Sing Ag MineLead, Silver, Iron, CopperPast Producer
Sing Sing Silver MineLead, Copper, Silver, Iron, Chromium, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast ProducerChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Silver
Sparta Copper DepositCopper, LeadOccurrence
(Facility) Chester Metals Division RefinerySilverPlant
Sparkill Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Sparkill PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this place

14 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tarrytown in 14 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 6 injuries. 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 FloodTarrytown1 killedThe body of a 69 year old man was found near Route 119 near the Mario Cuomo Bridge in Tarrytown not far from where his car was found submerged.
July 2006Tornado (F2)Tarrytown6 hurt, $10,100,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindTarrytown$3,000Downed trees on Interstate 87 northbound at exit 9.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindTarrytown$2,000Multiple large branches were reported down near Tappan Zee Bridge.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindTarrytown$1,500Multiple trees and wires reported down on Park avenue in Tarrytown.
October 2017FloodTarrytown-Broadway was closed due to flooding between Prospect Avenue and Benedict Avenue in Tarrytown.
May 2013Flash FloodTarrytown-In Tarrytown, Rt. 9 was closed at McKeel Ave. from the road buckling due to flooding.
August 2011Flash FloodNorth Tarrytown-The public reported street and basement flash flooding in Philipse Manor. There were also public reports of road closures along Route 9 due to flash flooding in Croton On Hudson.
June 2011Funnel CloudTarrytown-A funnel cloud was seen just to the southwest of Tarrytown.
August 2011HailNorth Tarrytown-Quarter size hail was reported in Philipse Manor.
March 2009HailTarrytown-Quarter size hail was reported in Tarrytown.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindTarrytown-A gust of 63 mph was measured at a mesonet site located near the east end of the Tappen Zee Bridge.
July 2008Flash FloodNorth Tarrytown-Route 9 at Gordon Ave. in Tarrytown was impassable due to flooding.
September 2004Flash FloodTarrytown-Major flash flooding was the cause of several road closures.

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
Sleepy Hollow0.7 miles39
Briggsville1.0 miles39
Glenville1.2 miles39
Philipse Manor1.4 miles39
Eastview1.6 miles39
Pocantico Hills1.7 miles39
East Irvington2.0 miles39
Sleepy Hollow Manor2.0 miles39

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 TarrytownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1020341The 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 967065. 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.