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Photograph of The Homestead
Photograph by Janet Andersen, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Homestead, The

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 36 Mead St., Waccabuc, 10597
  • When was it listed? March 2001
  • Category. building
  • Town. Lewisboro town
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 01000294 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1892 to 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Homestead, The, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet covering Homestead, The, surveyed 1892

Fires near this property

118 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Homestead, The between 2000 and 2019, burning about 65 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined62
Natural13
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking9
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2

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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
23 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2005Natural1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Homestead, The: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Quartz, Marble, Dimension, Mica, Quartz. 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
Pegmatite QuarryMica, QuartzPast Producer
Ridgefield Pegmatite QuarryFeldspar, QuartzPast ProducerFeldspar
Ridgefield QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

15 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Waccabuc Historic District0.5 miles2015
Mead Memorial Chapel0.9 miles1999
Osborn-Bouton-Mead House1.9 miles2004
South Salem Presbyterian Church Cemetery2.2 miles2014
North Salem Town Hall3.2 miles1980
Somers Hamlet Historic District3.6 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000294 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester CountyAll 250 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • 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.