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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.

Tuckahoe within Westchester County

Then and now

1891 to 1995

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Tuckahoe, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Tuckahoe, surveyed 1891

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 42 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

925 since 2000

Regional 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/undetermined603
Arson/incendiarism95
Smoking68
Natural56
Recreation and ceremony46
Equipment and vehicle use28
Debris and open burning11
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Other causes5

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 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2016Recreation and ceremony6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Missing 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

Storms near this place

23 since 2004

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2009Thunderstorm WindTuckahoe1 hurt, $4,000A tree was downed into a bedroom, injuring one woman.
July 2009LightningTuckahoe1 hurtA female standing by a third floor window at 1 Cedar Lane was struck and injured by lightning.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindTuckahoe$20,000Trees and wires were reported down on a house along Scarsdale Road in Yonkers.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindTuckahoe$4,000Trees and wires reported down in Bronxville.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindTuckahoe$3,000Large tree limbs reported down and a split tree reported in Tuckahoe.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindTuckahoe$2,500A large tree and wires were reported down at the corner of Main Street and Marbledale Road in Tuckahoe.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindTuckahoe$1,000Downed tree on Bronx River Parkway southbound at Exit 23.
August 2008LightningTuckahoe$750Lightning struck a building on Main Street, causing minor damage.
September 2023Flash FloodTuckahoe-Hutchinson River Parkway closed in both directions between Exit 8 and Bronx-Westchester County Line.
September 2023Flash FloodTuckahoe-Sprain Brook Parkway closed between start route of the Sprain Brook Parkway and Exit for NY 100. All lanes closed due to flooding.
September 2023Flash FloodTuckahoe-Bronx River Parkway between Sprain Brook Parkway and Exit 22 closed due to flooding.
September 2023Flash FloodTuckahoe-Hutchinson River Parkway closed in both directions at Exit 9A and 9B due to flooding.
December 2023Flash FloodTuckahoe-Flooding and road closure on Bronx River Parkway Northbound at Exit Sprain Brook Parkway. All lanes closed.
July 2022Flash FloodTuckahoe-Road closure both directions on Bronx River Parkway between exit Sprain Brook Parkway/Yonkers and Exit 22.
July 2022Flash FloodTuckahoe-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 2021Flash FloodTuckahoe-Flooding was reported at the Crestwood Lake Apartments on Beaumont Circle in Yonkers.
July 2020Flash FloodTuckahoe-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 2013Flash FloodTuckahoe-The Bronx River Pkwy. southbound was closed between Tarrytown Rd. and Harney Rd. due to flooding.
March 2010FloodTuckahoe-In Yonkers, the Bronx River Pkwy. was closed in both directions in the vicinity of the Sprain Brook Pkwy. due to flooding.
June 2009HailTuckahoe-Quarter size hail was reported in Eastchester.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindTuckahoe-A large tree was reported down by law enforcement in Tuckahoe.
September 2008Flash FloodTuckahoe-The Bronx River Parkway was closed near County Highway 2 in Scarsdale.
June 2004HailTuckahoe-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
Beverly Crest0.6 miles42
Crestwood0.7 miles42
Cedar Knolls0.7 miles42
Waverly0.8 miles42
Mohegan Heights0.8 miles42
Bronxville0.9 miles42
Colonial Heights1.0 miles42
Moorelands1.2 miles42

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.