Tuckahoe, New York
42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Eastchester town. It lies in ZIP code area 10707. It stands on Troublesome Brook. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle.
Then and now
1891 to 1995The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1891 against another survey:
On record in Tuckahoe
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 6 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Bronxville Womens' Clublisted 2007 · 0.5 miles away
US Post Office-Bronxvillelisted 1988 · 0.9 miles away
Tuckahoe High Schoollisted 2010 · 0.9 miles away
Masterton-Dusenberry Houselisted 1980 · 0.9 miles away
Eleazer Hart Houselisted 1982 · 0.9 miles away
Lawrence Park Historic Districtlisted 1980 · 1.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 42 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.
- 1891 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
- 1897 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1898 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500, 16 printings
- 1947 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
925 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 925 fires within 5 miles of Tuckahoe between 2000 and 2020, burning about 579 acres in total. 56 started naturally. 95 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 | 603 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 95 |
| Smoking | 68 |
| Natural | 56 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 46 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 28 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 9 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 9 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 6.3 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
23 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tuckahoe in 23 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 11 flash flood, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 lightning. The reports record 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tuckahoe | 1 hurt, $4,000 | A tree was downed into a bedroom, injuring one woman. |
| July 2009 | Lightning | Tuckahoe | 1 hurt | A female standing by a third floor window at 1 Cedar Lane was struck and injured by lightning. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tuckahoe | $20,000 | Trees and wires were reported down on a house along Scarsdale Road in Yonkers. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tuckahoe | $4,000 | Trees and wires reported down in Bronxville. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tuckahoe | $3,000 | Large tree limbs reported down and a split tree reported in Tuckahoe. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tuckahoe | $2,500 | A large tree and wires were reported down at the corner of Main Street and Marbledale Road in Tuckahoe. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tuckahoe | $1,000 | Downed tree on Bronx River Parkway southbound at Exit 23. |
| August 2008 | Lightning | Tuckahoe | $750 | Lightning struck a building on Main Street, causing minor damage. |
| September 2023 | Flash Flood | Tuckahoe | - | Hutchinson River Parkway closed in both directions between Exit 8 and Bronx-Westchester County Line. |
| September 2023 | Flash Flood | Tuckahoe | - | Sprain Brook Parkway closed between start route of the Sprain Brook Parkway and Exit for NY 100. All lanes closed due to flooding. |
| September 2023 | Flash Flood | Tuckahoe | - | Bronx River Parkway between Sprain Brook Parkway and Exit 22 closed due to flooding. |
| September 2023 | Flash Flood | Tuckahoe | - | Hutchinson River Parkway closed in both directions at Exit 9A and 9B due to flooding. |
| December 2023 | Flash Flood | Tuckahoe | - | Flooding and road closure on Bronx River Parkway Northbound at Exit Sprain Brook Parkway. All lanes closed. |
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Tuckahoe | - | Road closure both directions on Bronx River Parkway between exit Sprain Brook Parkway/Yonkers and Exit 22. |
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Tuckahoe | - | Media broadcast shows Bronx River parkway impassible with 2 to 3 feet of water under and overpass. Bronx river Parkway was closed from County Center in White Plains to the Sprain Split in Yonkers. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Tuckahoe | - | Flooding was reported at the Crestwood Lake Apartments on Beaumont Circle in Yonkers. |
| July 2020 | Flash Flood | Tuckahoe | - | All lanes were blocked southbound due to flooding on the Bronx River Parkway between Scarsdale Road and the Sprain Brook Parkway in Cedar Knolls. |
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Tuckahoe | - | The Bronx River Pkwy. southbound was closed between Tarrytown Rd. and Harney Rd. due to flooding. |
| March 2010 | Flood | Tuckahoe | - | In Yonkers, the Bronx River Pkwy. was closed in both directions in the vicinity of the Sprain Brook Pkwy. due to flooding. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Tuckahoe | - | Quarter size hail was reported in Eastchester. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tuckahoe | - | A large tree was reported down by law enforcement in Tuckahoe. |
| September 2008 | Flash Flood | Tuckahoe | - | The Bronx River Parkway was closed near County Highway 2 in Scarsdale. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Tuckahoe | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beverly Crest | 0.6 miles | 42 | |
| Crestwood | 0.7 miles | 42 | |
| Cedar Knolls | 0.7 miles | 42 | |
| Waverly | 0.8 miles | 42 | |
| Mohegan Heights | 0.8 miles | 42 | |
| Bronxville | 0.9 miles | 42 | |
| Colonial Heights | 1.0 miles | 42 | |
| Moorelands | 1.2 miles | 42 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 967924. 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.
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.














