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Photograph of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Photograph by Midnightdreary, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

Built in 1849. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States, is a non-profit, non-sectarian burying ground of about 90 acres (36 ha). It is the final resting place of numerous famous figures, including Washington Irving, who was a cofounder of the establishment.”

Wikipedia article Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 2009 · category: District · built in 1849.

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 17 structuress, 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 540 N. Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, 10591
  • When was it listed? June 2009
  • Category. district
  • Town. Mount Pleasant town
  • When was it built? 1849
  • National Register reference number. 09000380 - 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

875 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 875 fires within 5 miles of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery between 2000 and 2020, burning about 661 acres in total. 91 started naturally. 53 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/undetermined492
Natural91
Smoking90
Recreation and ceremony58
Arson/incendiarism53
Debris and open burning42
Equipment and vehicle use33
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2003Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery: 5 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Vanadium, Lead, Copper, Silver, Iron. 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
Ossining AreaVanadium, LeadOccurrenceVanadinite
Sing Sing Ag MineLead, Silver, Iron, CopperPast Producer
Sing Sing Silver MineLead, Copper, Silver, Iron, Chromium, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast ProducerChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Silver
Sparta Copper DepositCopper, LeadOccurrence
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast 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
Philipse Manor Railroad Station0.8 miles1991
Dutch Reformed Church0.9 miles1966
Philipsburg Manor1.0 miles1966
Rockefeller Pocantico Hills Estate Historic District1.2 miles2019
John D. Rockefeller Estate1.3 miles1976
Edward Harden Mansion1.4 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 09000380 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.