Photograph of Tarrytown Light — Photograph by Skip willits, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Tarrytown Lighthouse

Built in 1883. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Tarrytown Light, also known as Kingsland Point Light and Sleepy Hollow Light, is a sparkplug lighthouse on the east side of the Hudson River in Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States. It a conical steel structure erected in the 1880s.”
Wikipedia article Tarrytown Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1979 · category: Structure · built in 1883.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Spans Hudson River, Sleepy Hollow
When was it listed? May 1979
Category. structure
Also known as. Hudson River Lighthouses TR
Town. Mount Pleasant town
When was it built? 1883
National Register reference number. 79001649 - 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

924 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 924 fires within 5 miles of Tarrytown Lighthouse between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,054 acres in total. 89 started naturally. 53 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	525
Smoking	113
Natural	89
Recreation and ceremony	55
Arson/incendiarism	53
Equipment and vehicle use	37
Debris and open burning	35
Power generation/transmission/distribution	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Other causes	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
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Tarrytown Lighthouse: 7 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum. 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
Dobbs Ferry Plant	Molybdenum, Rhenium, Tungsten, Tantalum	Producer
Sing Sing Ag Mine	Lead, Silver, Iron, Copper	Past Producer
Sing Sing Silver Mine	Lead, Copper, Silver, Iron, Chromium, Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past Producer	Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Silver
Sparta Copper Deposit	Copper, Lead	Occurrence
Sparkill Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Sparkill Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Limonite
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Residual
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	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 coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1892 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1902 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1932 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000
1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1938 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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
Philipsburg Manor	0.6 miles	1966
Foster Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church	0.7 miles	1982
Philipse Manor Railroad Station	0.8 miles	1991
Patriot's Park	0.8 miles	1982
Dutch Reformed Church	0.8 miles	1966
Edward Harden Mansion	0.9 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001649 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.