Williams Bridge, New York

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.

1891 1995

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 9 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Woodlawn CemeteryNational Historic Landmark · listed 2011 · 0.8 miles away
• Lisanti Chapellisted 2002 · 0.3 miles away
• Keeper's House at Williamsbridge Reservoirlisted 1999 · 0.5 miles away
• Williamsbridge Oval Parklisted 2015 · 0.6 miles away
• Valentine-Varian Houselisted 1978 · 0.7 miles away
• United Workers Cooperativeslisted 1986 · 0.8 miles away
• 52nd Police Precinct Station House and Stablelisted 1982 · 0.9 miles away
• Woodlawan Station (Dual System IRT)listed 2005 · 0.9 miles away
• Eastchester Houseslisted 2025 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,690 fires within 5 miles of Williams Bridge between 2000 and 2020, burning about 873 acres in total. 161 started naturally. 150 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Dodgewood
• Eastchester Heights
• Bedford Park
• Eastchester
• Fieldston
• Fordham Hill

Every fire recorded in Bronx County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Williams Bridge: 4 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Beryllium, Garnet, Gemstone, Kyanite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Bronx County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williams Bridge in 10 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 8 flash flood, 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Bronx County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 971302. 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.