Rockefeller Pocantico Hills Estate Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 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 2019 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Bedford, Sleepy Hollow & Lake Rds. et al., Pocantico Hills, 10591
When was it listed? November 2019
Category. district
Town. Mount Pleasant town
National Register reference number. 100004554 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

657 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 657 fires within 5 miles of Rockefeller Pocantico Hills Estate Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 522 acres in total. 90 started naturally. 42 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	352
Natural	90
Recreation and ceremony	54
Smoking	46
Arson/incendiarism	42
Debris and open burning	34
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
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
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	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 Rockefeller Pocantico Hills Estate Historic District: 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 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
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
Union Church of Pocantico Hills	0.6 miles	2002
John D. Rockefeller Estate	1.0 miles	1976
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery	1.2 miles	2009
Dutch Reformed Church	1.5 miles	1966
Philipsburg Manor	1.7 miles	1966
Edward Harden Mansion	1.7 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004554 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.