Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.
From the record
“The Hammond House is located on Grasslands Road in the Eastview section of the town of Mount Pleasant, New York, United States. It is a wooden building whose oldest part dates to the 1720s, with later additions during the 19th century.”
Wikipedia article Hammond House (Eastview, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.80002790- 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
855 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 855 fires within 5 miles of Hammond House
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 744 acres in total. 79 started naturally. 51 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
481
Natural
79
Recreation and ceremony
77
Smoking
75
Arson/incendiarism
51
Debris and open burning
32
Equipment and vehicle use
26
Power generation/transmission/distribution
22
Misuse of fire by a minor
11
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
7 workings within 5 miles of Hammond House: 4 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer, 1 occurrence.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Granite, Silver, Copper. 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
Hawthorne, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 11 flash flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 hail.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
All lanes were closed on the Saw Mill River Pkwy. northbound between exit 26, Taconic State Pkwy., and exit 27, Marble Ave., due to flooding. The southbound ramp at exit 29, Manville Rd./Rt. 117 was also closed due to flooding.
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.
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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