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One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 2019 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Robinwood Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.
The listing
- Address. Tavano & Somerstown Rds., Ossining, 10562
- When was it listed? April 2019
- Category. district
- Town. Ossining town
- National Register reference number. 100003632 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
404 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 404 fires within 5 miles of Robinwood Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 310 acres in total. 53 started naturally. 19 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 | 211 |
| Natural | 53 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 32 |
| Debris and open burning | 28 |
| Smoking | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 21 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| 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 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 30 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 3 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Robinwood Historic District: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Emery, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nelson Property Deposit | Corundum | Prospect | ||
| 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 | ||
| Salt Hill Emery Prospects | Emery | Occurrence | Corundum, Garnet, Magnetite, Sapphire, Spinel | |
| Salt Hill Emery Prospects | Emery | Prospect |
Storms near this property
15 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ossining, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ossining | 1 killed | no account filed |
| September 2021 | Flash Flood | Ossining | $92,600,000 | Flash flooding resulted in an estimated $92.6 million in damages across Westchester County. This estimate includes $78 million in FEMA individual assistance to property owners, renters, and businesses and an additional $14.6 million in damages to Westchester County government infrastructure. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ossining | $3,000 | Multiple tree limbs downed power poles. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ossining | $2,000 | Multiple downed trees and power lines were reported along Lower Spring Street. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ossining | $1,000 | Tree down and road closure on NY 9A southbound south of Croton Dam Road in Ossining. All lanes closed. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ossining | $1,000 | A tree was reported down on New York State Route 9A near Ryder Road. |
| July 2023 | Flash Flood | Ossining | - | DOT reports flooding and road closure on NY 9A southbound at Ryder road. All lanes blocked. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Ossining | - | Quarter size hail was reported in Ossining. |
| December 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ossining | - | A television camera man reported large diameter trees snapped off. The Journal News showed a tree that fell onto a crushed a truck on Ferris Place in Ossining. Power lines and a transformer were also damaged. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ossining | - | As a line of severe thunderstorms moved southeast, it produced high winds that downed numerous trees and power lines from Ossining northeast to Croton Falls. Local police and newspapers reported numerous trees and power lines downed in Ossining. Several newspapers reported that a large tree toppled over onto a moving car on Route 22 in Croton Falls. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ossining | - | A cold front sweeping across the region generated a line of heavy showers and thunderstorms. Some trees and power lines were downed as strong winds aloft were brought to the surface in the thunderstorms downdraft. Winds gusted between 50 and 60 knots for only a couple of minutes as the outflow generated by the parent storm passed through. Some residents reported that the sky never blackened and there was no thunder or lightning when the actual winds struck. |
| June 2001 | Flash Flood | Ossining | - | no account filed |
| February 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ossining | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ossining | - | no account filed |
| October 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ossining | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
15 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Carrie Chapman Catt House | 0.7 miles | 2006 |
 | Williams-DuBois House | 0.8 miles | 1989 |
 | Richard Austin House | 1.1 miles | 1988 |
 | Dale Cemetery | 1.4 miles | 2013 |
 | Isaac Young House | 1.6 miles | 2004 |
 | Washington School | 1.7 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100003632 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.