Downtown Ossining Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.
From the record
“The Downtown Ossining Historic District is located at the central crossroads of Ossining, New York, United States, and the village's traditional business district known as the Crescent. Among its many late 19th- and early 20th-century commercial buildings are many of the village's major landmarks - three bank buildings, four churches, its village hall, former post office and high school.”
Wikipedia article Downtown Ossining Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.12001133- 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.
Fires near this property
507 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 507 fires within 5 miles of Downtown Ossining Historic District (Boundary Increase)
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 364 acres in total. 60 started naturally. 32 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
262
Natural
60
Recreation and ceremony
40
Smoking
36
Debris and open burning
36
Arson/incendiarism
32
Equipment and vehicle use
29
Power generation/transmission/distribution
9
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Downtown Ossining Historic District (Boundary Increase): 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.
Regional 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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