A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.
From the record
“Lyndhurst, also known as the Jay Gould estate, is a Gothic Revival country house that sits in its own 67-acre (27 ha) park beside the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York, about a half mile south of the Tappan Zee Bridge on US 9. The estate was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966.”
Wikipedia article Lyndhurst (estate), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.66000582- 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
737 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 737 fires within 5 miles of Lyndhurst
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 979 acres in total. 76 started naturally. 61 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
419
Natural
76
Arson/incendiarism
61
Smoking
59
Recreation and ceremony
51
Equipment and vehicle use
30
Debris and open burning
20
Power generation/transmission/distribution
16
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Other causes
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
6 workings within 5 miles of Lyndhurst: 5 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum, Rhenium. 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
Tarrytown, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado.
The reports record 1 death and 6 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.
The public reported street and basement flash flooding in Philipse Manor. There were also public reports of road closures along Route 9 due to flash flooding in Croton On Hudson.
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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