Waccabuc Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 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 2015 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Mead St. & portions of Tarry-A-Bit Dr., Post Office & Chapel Rds., Lewisboro, 10597
When was it listed? July 2015
Category. district
Town. Lewisboro town
National Register reference number. 15000236 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1892 to 1998

The 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.

Topographic sheet covering Waccabuc Historic District, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet covering Waccabuc Historic District, surveyed 1892

Fires near this property

113 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Waccabuc Historic District between 1993 and 2019, burning about 98 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 9 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	56
Natural	11
Smoking	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Arson/incendiarism	9
Debris and open burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
5 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Connecticut Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2005	Natural	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Waccabuc Historic District: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Quartz, Marble, Dimension, Mica, Quartz. 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
Pegmatite Quarry	Mica, Quartz	Past Producer
Ridgefield Pegmatite Quarry	Feldspar, Quartz	Past Producer	Feldspar
Ridgefield Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer

Every working 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 Carmel quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1928 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1945 USGS Peach Lake quadrangle1:24000
1945 USGS Peach Lake quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1946 USGS Peach Lake quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Peach Lake quadrangle1:24000 - 7 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
1998 USGS Peach Lake quadrangle1:24000

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
Mead Memorial Chapel	0.5 miles	1999
Homestead, The	0.5 miles	2001
Osborn-Bouton-Mead House	2.2 miles	2004
South Salem Presbyterian Church Cemetery	2.4 miles	2014
North Salem Town Hall	2.7 miles	1980
Somers Hamlet Historic District	3.2 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000236 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.