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Photograph of Bedford Village Historic District
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Bedford Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The Bedford Village Historic District is a national historic district in Bedford, Westchester County, New York. The district contains 80 contributing buildings and one contributing site.”

Wikipedia article Bedford Village Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1973 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

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 Bedford Village Historic District, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet covering Bedford Village Historic District, surveyed 1892

Fires near this property

273 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 273 fires within 5 miles of Bedford Village Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 177 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined121
Natural40
Smoking31
Arson/incendiarism23
Debris and open burning20
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Equipment and vehicle use15
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2008Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Bedford Village Historic District: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Feldspar, Quartz. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hobby QuarriesFeldspar, QuartzPast Producer
Baylis Rock QuarryStonePast Producer
Baylis Rock QuarryStonePast Producer
Kinkel Gneiss Rock QuarriesStoneProducer
Kinkel Gneiss Rock QuarriesStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bedford, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBedford$15,000Multiple trees and power lines were reported down between Bedford and Pound Ridge, including bringing one large tree into a house on Eastwoods Road in Pound Ridge.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBedford$7,500Numerous trees were reported down across town.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBedford$5,000Multiple trees and wires down on Old Post Road.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBedford$3,000Trees and wires down on Guard Hill Road.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindBedford$3,000Trees and wires down at Greenwich Road and Brett Lane.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindBedford$3,000Trees and wires down at Middle Patent Road and Rustling Lane.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBedford$1,000Downed tree on NY 22 in both directions south of Bedford Road. All lanes are blocked.
July 2010HailBedford-Quarter size hail was reported in Bedford.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindBedford-Power lines down.
August 2003HailBedford-A line of thunderstorms developed and moved east across southeast New York. As it did, a severe thunderstorm developed and produced penny size hail.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBedford-Local police reported that severe thunderstorm winds knocked several trees down.
June 1996Flash FloodBedford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Palmer-Lewis Estate2.1 miles1998
Caramoor2.4 miles2001
Pound Ridge Historic District3.3 miles1985
John Jay Homestead3.3 miles1972
Merestead4.0 miles1984
Katonah Village Historic District4.2 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73001285 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester CountyAll 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.
  • 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.