Built in 1758. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
From the record
“The Valentine-Varian House is a historic house located in the Norwood neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City. Built in 1758 by Isaac Valentine, it is the Bronx's second oldest house and oldest remaining farmhouse.”
Wikipedia article Valentine-Varian House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 91 National Register listings published here for Bronx County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1758.
National Register reference number.78001841- 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.
Then and now
1891 to 1998
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18911998
Fires near this property
2,734 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2,734 fires within 5 miles of Valentine-Varian House
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 889 acres in total. 166 started naturally. 155 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
1921
Smoking
166
Natural
166
Recreation and ceremony
166
Arson/incendiarism
155
Equipment and vehicle use
62
Debris and open burning
60
Misuse of fire by a minor
19
Power generation/transmission/distribution
9
Other causes
6
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
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
8 workings within 5 miles of Valentine-Varian House: 5 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 plant.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Garnet, Zirconium, Beryllium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
United 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.
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.
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