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Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil-Kingsbridge Memorial Bell Tower
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
From the record
“The Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil-Kingsbridge Memorial Bell Tower or Riverdale Monument is a memorial tower in Bell Tower Park located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. It was completed on September 17, 1930 to commemorate World War I veterans from the neighborhoods of Riverdale, Spuyten Duyvil, and Kingsbridge.”
Wikipedia article Riverdale Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 91 National Register listings published here for Bronx County · listed in 2012 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.11000967- 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.
Then and now
1891 to 1998
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18911998
Fires near this property
2,281 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2,281 fires within 5 miles of Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil-Kingsbridge Memorial Bell Tower
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 772 acres in total. 124 started naturally. 132 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
1604
Recreation and ceremony
140
Smoking
140
Arson/incendiarism
132
Natural
124
Equipment and vehicle use
55
Debris and open burning
52
Misuse of fire by a minor
15
Power generation/transmission/distribution
8
Other causes
7
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
9 workings within 5 miles of Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil-Kingsbridge Memorial Bell Tower: 5 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 plant.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Garnet, Zirconium, Beryllium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Bronx, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 10 flash flood, 4 hail, 2 lightning.
The reports record 1 death and 4 injuries. 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.
All lanes were closed on the Cross Bronx Expressway at Jerome Ave. due to flooding. The northbound exit ramp to Jerome Ave. was also closed due to flooding.
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.
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.
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.
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