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One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 2016 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
New York, Westchester and Boston Railway Highbrook Avenue Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Highbrook Ave. between Lincoln & Harmon Aves., Pelham, 10803
- When was it listed? August 2016
- Category. structure
- Town. Pelham town
- National Register reference number. 16000487 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1891 to 1995The 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.
Fires near this property
1,300 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,300 fires within 5 miles of New York, Westchester and Boston Railway Highbrook Avenue Bridge between 2000 and 2020, burning about 552 acres in total. 89 started naturally. 97 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 | 879 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 97 |
| Smoking | 96 |
| Natural | 89 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 68 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 29 |
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Other causes | 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 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 9 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 9 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 9 September 2010 | 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 |
| 8 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Maps showing this location
15 surveysUnited 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.
- 1891 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
- 1897 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1898 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500 - 16 printings
- 1947 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Mount Vernon 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
- 1966 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Mount Vernon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Pelham Picture House | 0.6 miles | 2010 |
 | Knickerbocker Press Building | 0.9 miles | 2000 |
 | Pelhamdale | 1.1 miles | 1982 |
 | Trinity-St. Paul's Episcopal Church | 1.1 miles | 2006 |
 | New Rochelle Railroad Station | 1.1 miles | 2009 |
 | US Post Office-New Rochelle | 1.2 miles | 1989 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000487 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.