Photograph of Bear Mountain Bridge Road — Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Bear Mountain Bridge Rd.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Bear Mountain Bridge Road is a three-mile (4.8 km), two-lane section of US 6/US 202 from the west approach to Bear Mountain Bridge to a former toll house in the Town of Cortlandt, New York, United States. Local residents sometimes refer to the road as the Goat Trail.”
Wikipedia article Bear Mountain Bridge Road, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1982 · category: Structure.

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 2 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 6/202, between Bear Mt. Bridge, Cortlandt, 10567
When was it listed? November 1982
Category. structure
Also known as. Hudson Highlands MRA
Town. Cortlandt town
National Register reference number. 82001274 - 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

427 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 427 fires within 5 miles of Bear Mountain Bridge Rd. between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,754 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 50 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	263
Arson/incendiarism	50
Natural	32
Smoking	29
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Debris and open burning	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Bear Mountain Bridge Rd.: 19 past producers, 5 occurrences, 5 producers, 4 prospects. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Emery, Iron, Clay, Graphite. 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
Anthony's Nose Deposit	Sulfur	Past Producer
Cotton Rock Stilbite Deposit	Zeolites	Occurrence
Peekskill Area	Titanium, Metal, Iron, Aluminum	Occurrence
Peekskill Area Prospect	Titanium, Aluminum, Iron	Prospect
Peter Wyant Mica Property Deposit	Mica, Graphite	Prospect
Phillips Mine	Molybdenum, Uranium	Occurrence	Replacement
Phillips Mine	Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Uranium	Past Producer	1865, 1880
Phillips Mine-Camp Smith Area	Cobalt, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, Uranium	Past Producer	1866
Phillips Sulfide, Magnetite Mine	Iron, Uranium, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, Sulfur	Past Producer
Phillips Sulfide, Magnetite, and Uranium Mine	Iron, Sulfur, Copper, Nickel, Uranium, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	1839, 1865

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

16 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 West Point quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1899 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 12 printings
1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:48000
1941 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Peekskill quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Peekskill quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 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
Peekskill Freight Depot	1.4 miles	2004
Standard House	1.5 miles	2000
Nelson Avenue-Fort Hill Historic District	1.6 miles	2006
Peekskill Presbyterian Church	1.7 miles	2002
US Post Office-Peekskill	1.7 miles	1989
Drum Hill High School	1.7 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82001274 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.