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Photograph of North Salem Town Hall
Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

North Salem Town Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“North Salem Town Hall is a historic town hall located in North Salem, Westchester County, New York. It was built about 1770 by New York lawyer Stephen De Lancey, a member of a prominent Loyalist family.”

Wikipedia article North Salem Town Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Titicus Rd., Salem Center, 10560
  • When was it listed? September 1980
  • Category. building
  • Town. North Salem town
  • National Register reference number. 80002794 - 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

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 North Salem Town Hall, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet covering North Salem Town Hall, surveyed 1892

Fires near this property

265 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 265 fires within 5 miles of North Salem Town Hall between 2000 and 2020, burning about 201 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined132
Natural27
Arson/incendiarism26
Smoking26
Debris and open burning21
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Missing 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 2009Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of North Salem Town Hall: 13 past producers, 5 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Copper, Sulfur, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Feldspar. 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
Croton Magnetite Iron MinesIron, CopperPast Producer1880
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry No. Gk-013StonePast Producer
Pegmatite QuarryMica, QuartzPast Producer
Ridgefield Pegmatite QuarryFeldspar, QuartzPast ProducerFeldspar
Ridgefield QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Brewster MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Somers Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Croton - Theall Magnetite MineIron, Copper, SulfurPast Producer1880, 1883
Croton-Mc Collum Magnetite MineIron, Copper, SulfurPast Producer1843, 1880
Croton-Theall Magnetite MineIron, Copper, SulfurPast 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.

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
Union Hall1.5 miles1986
Somers Hamlet Historic District1.5 miles2004
Mead Memorial Chapel2.3 miles1999
Waccabuc Historic District2.7 miles2015
Joseph Purdy Homestead3.0 miles1973
Homestead, The3.2 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80002794 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.