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One of 601 National Register listings published here for New York County · listed in 2013 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
The Bowery Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.
The listing
- Address. Chatham Square to Cooper Square, Manhattan, 10012
- When was it listed? February 2013
- Category. district
- Borough. Manhattan
- National Register reference number. 13000027 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1889 to 1995The ground this property stands on, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
1,282 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,282 fires within 5 miles of The Bowery Historic District between 1995 and 2020, burning about 380 acres in total. 85 started naturally. 106 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 | 812 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 106 |
| Natural | 85 |
| Smoking | 82 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 59 |
| Debris and open burning | 51 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 39 |
| Fireworks | 24 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
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 | NA |
| 9 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of The Bowery Historic District: 7 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Graphite, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49th St & 1st Ave Beryl Deposit | Beryllium | Occurrence | ||
| 64th St & 10th Ave Stilbite Deposit | Zeolites | Occurrence | ||
| 69th/70th Sts & 2nd Ave Deposit | Iron, Garnet, Titanium | Occurrence | ||
| Dixon Crucible/ Jersey City, N.J. | Graphite | Unknown | ||
| General Metallic Oxides/Jersey City | Manganese | Unknown | ||
| Manhattan Island Occurrence | Molybdenum | Occurrence | ||
| Week's Trap Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | 1898 | |
| 2nd St & 4th Ave Siderite Deposit | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| 55th/56th Sts & 3rd Ave Deposit | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| 85th/86th Sts, 9th/10th Aves Dep. | Iron | Occurrence |
Maps showing this location
16 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.
- 1889 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
- 1891 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
- 1897 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1898 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
- 1947 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Fourteenth Ward Industrial School | 0.1 miles | 1983 |
 | Old St. Patrick's Cathedral Complex | 0.1 miles | 1977 |
 | Chinatown and Little Italy Historic District | 0.1 miles | 2010 |
 | Puck Building | 0.2 miles | 1983 |
 | University Settlement House | 0.2 miles | 1986 |
 | Bowery Savings Bank | 0.2 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13000027 in Record Group 79. |
| New York County | All 601 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.