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One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
St. John's Episcopal Church
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 8 Sunnyside Ave., Pleasantville, 10570
- When was it listed? January 2017
- Category. building
- Town. Mount Pleasant town
- National Register reference number. 100000616 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
514 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 514 fires within 5 miles of St. John's Episcopal Church between 2000 and 2020, burning about 452 acres in total. 75 started naturally. 25 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 | 248 |
| Natural | 75 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 45 |
| Debris and open burning | 37 |
| Smoking | 32 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 26 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 25 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.8 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 5 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 September 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 September 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 4 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of St. John's Episcopal Church: 6 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armonk Plant | Peat | Past Producer | Peat | |
| 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 | ||
| Ackerman's Limonite Mine | Iron | Past Producer | Limonite | |
| Ackerman's Limonite Mine | Iron | Past Producer | Residual | |
| Ackerman's Limonite Mine | Iron | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
13 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasantville, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Lightning | Pleasantville | $200,000 | Lightning struck the upper portion of a condo complex, ignited fires, and displaced at least 8 families. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasantville | $50,000 | The National Weather Service in coordination with Westchester County |Office of Emergency Management performed a storm survey in Westchester County. ||The survey determined that a storm produced a swath of straight line wind damage from Pleasantville to Chappaqua with wind gusts up to 80 mph. ||At Chappaqua, Kipp Street near the intersection of Quaker Road (Route 120) was partially closed due to downed large tree branches and several large downed trees, some into houses. Peak wind gusts were estimated at 60 to 70 mph. ||At Pleasantville, where the most significant thunderstorm wind damage occurred, peak wind gusts were estimated at 70 to 80 mph between 300 and 500 Washington Avenue. Several large trees and branches were downed, including into houses, with a few tree tops snapped off. Damage to gutters and backyard decks occurred as well due to falling trees. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasantville | $7,500 | Numerous trees were reported down throughout Pleasantville, including some down on wires, causing sporadic power outages. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasantville | $5,000 | Multiple trees were reported down across town. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasantville | $3,000 | Multiple trees down on highway 100 north of Chappaqua Road. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasantville | $3,000 | A tree down on wires on Old Sleepy Hollow Road. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasantville | $2,000 | Trees reported down with time estimated by radar. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Pleasantville | - | All southbound lanes closed on the Saw Mill River Parkway due to flooding south of Grant Street (Exit 30) in the vicinity of Pleasantville Road (CR 106) in Mount Pleasant. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Pleasantville | - | The Saw Mill River Pkwy. was closed in Hawthorne between the Taconic Pkwy. and Manville Rd. due to flooding. |
| May 2011 | Flood | Pleasantville | - | The Saw Mill River Pkwy. around Marble Ave. near the Taconic State Pkwy., and the Bronx River Pkwy. from the County Center in White Plains south to the Sprain Brook Pkwy. were closed due to flooding. Two water rescues were performed on the Bronx River Pkwy., one of which was at Pondfield Rd. in Bronxville. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Pleasantville | - | Hail was observed on the Taconic Parkway in Briarcliff Manor. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasantville | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged trees and power lines in Briarcliff Manor. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasantville | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
15 surveysUnited 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
- 1936 USGS Ossining quadrangle1:24000
- 1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Ossining quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Ossining quadrangle1:25000
- 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Ossining 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 Ossining quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Marmaduke Forster House | 0.1 miles | 2011 |
 | Church of Saint Mary the Virgin and Greeley Grove | 1.6 miles | 1979 |
 | Chappaqua Railroad Depot and Depot Plaza | 1.7 miles | 1979 |
 | Rehoboth | 1.8 miles | 1979 |
 | Greeley House | 1.9 miles | 1979 |
 | Usonia Historic District | 2.1 miles | 2012 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100000616 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.