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Valhalla, New York

39 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 10595. It stands on Davis Brook. The Survey maps it on the White Plains quadrangle. 3,213 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 256 feet above sea level.

Valhalla 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 Valhalla, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Valhalla, surveyed 1892

On record in Valhalla

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Valhalla grew from 3,162 to 3,213 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
20103,162
20203,213+51 (+2%)

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

849 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 849 fires within 5 miles of Valhalla between 2000 and 2020, burning about 744 acres in total. 75 started naturally. 55 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/undetermined477
Smoking82
Recreation and ceremony77
Natural75
Arson/incendiarism55
Equipment and vehicle use24
Debris and open burning24
Power generation/transmission/distribution22
Misuse of fire by a minor12
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 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 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 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

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Valhalla: 4 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Granite, 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
Lake Street Granite MineGraniteProducer
Lake Street Granite QuarryGranitePast ProducerGranite
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

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valhalla in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 5 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
June 2020Thunderstorm WindValhalla$2,000Trees down on Prospect Avenue with time estimated by radar.
July 2025Flash FloodValhalla-Flooding and Road Closure on Taconic State Parkway southbound between Commerce Street and Lakeview Avenue. All lanes of 2 lanes closed.
September 2023Flash FloodValhalla-Spraine Brook Parkway at Exit CR 301 closed due to flooding.
August 2021Flash FloodValhalla-The Taconic State Parkway was closed in both directions in Hawthorne due to flooding between Stevens Avenue and Commerce Street.
July 2014Flash FloodValhalla-Several cars were stranded in flood waters up to their doors near Brandurst Ave. in Mt. Pleasant.
July 2014Flash FloodValhalla-The Sprain Brook Pkwy. was closed in Mt. Pleasant after multiple cars became inundated with water due to flooding.
May 2000LightningValhalla-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
Knollwood Manor1.2 miles39
Quarry Heights1.3 miles39
North White Plains1.4 miles39
Mount Pleasant1.8 miles39
Fairview2.5 miles39
Hawthorne2.5 miles39
Yellowstone Park2.5 miles39
Elmsford2.7 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 ValhallaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2362234The 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 968353. 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.