Union Church of Pocantico Hills

Built in 1921 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Union Church of Pocantico Hills is a historic, nondenominational church in Pocantico Hills, New York. It is a notable example of an NRHP-listed church building, whose modern artistic contributions are central to its historic status.”
Wikipedia article Union Church of Pocantico Hills, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · built in 1921, Gothic Revival.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 555-559 Bedford Rd., Pocantico Hills, 10591
When was it listed? May 2002
Category. building
Town. Mount Pleasant town
When was it built? 1921
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 02000447 - 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.

Fires near this property

644 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 644 fires within 5 miles of Union Church of Pocantico Hills between 2000 and 2020, burning about 525 acres in total. 89 started naturally. 41 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	343
Natural	89
Recreation and ceremony	49
Smoking	44
Arson/incendiarism	41
Debris and open burning	32
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Power generation/transmission/distribution	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Union Church of Pocantico Hills: 5 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Silver, Vanadium, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Ossining Area	Vanadium, Lead	Occurrence	Vanadinite
Sing Sing Ag Mine	Lead, Silver, Iron, Copper	Past Producer
Sing Sing Silver Mine	Lead, Copper, Silver, Iron, Chromium, Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past Producer	Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Silver
Sparta Copper Deposit	Copper, Lead	Occurrence
(Facility) Chester Metals Division Refinery	Silver	Plant
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Limonite
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Residual
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pocantico Hills, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Pocantico Hills	$1,000	A tree was reported down on New York Route 117 between US Route 9 and the Rockefeller Estate.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Pocantico Hills	-	Flooding on NY 9A northbound at Browns Lane. All lanes closed.

Every storm 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.

1892 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1902 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1932 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000
1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1938 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Rockefeller Pocantico Hills Estate Historic District	0.6 miles	2019
John D. Rockefeller Estate	0.7 miles	1976
Dutch Reformed Church	1.6 miles	1966
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery	1.6 miles	2009
Edward Harden Mansion	1.6 miles	2004
Philipsburg Manor	1.7 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000447 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester County	All 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.
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.