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Sailing Vessel GITANA

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 2024 · category: Structure.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. New Rochelle Lower Harbor, New Rochelle, 10805
  • When was it listed? November 2024
  • Category. structure
  • City. New Rochelle city
  • National Register reference number. 100011073 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1891 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Sailing Vessel GITANA, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Sailing Vessel GITANA, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

1,138 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,138 fires within 5 miles of Sailing Vessel GITANA between 2000 and 2020, burning about 320 acres in total. 86 started naturally. 65 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/undetermined787
Natural86
Smoking82
Arson/incendiarism65
Recreation and ceremony58
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use23
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes2

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 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Natural2.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Rochelle, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2008: 3 lightning, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2008LightningNew Rochelle$15,000Lightning struck the steeple of New Rochelle High School, causing significant damage.
July 1996LightningNew Rochelle$5,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindNew Rochelle$2,000Multiple trees were reported down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Rochelle-Wires down at multiple locations including: North Avenue at Quaker Ridge Road, Fairview Place, and Franklin Avenue.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindNew Rochelle-no account filed
April 1999LightningNew Rochelle-no account filed

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.

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
Bolton Priory0.6 miles1974
Leland Castle0.7 miles1976
Manor Club1.0 miles2014
First Presbyterian Church and Pintard, Lewis, House1.1 miles1979
Lispenard-Rodman-Davenport House1.1 miles1986
Davenport House1.2 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100011073 in Record Group 79.
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.
  • 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.