Built in 1865. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.
From the record
“The Foster Memorial AME Zion Church is located on Wildey Street in Tarrytown, New York, United States. Formed in 1860, it is the oldest Black church in Westchester County and possibly one of the oldest in the state.”
Wikipedia article Foster Memorial AME Zion Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1865, by James Bird.
National Register reference number.82003414- 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
825 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 825 fires within 5 miles of Foster Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 992 acres in total. 84 started naturally. 54 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
470
Smoking
85
Natural
84
Recreation and ceremony
54
Arson/incendiarism
54
Debris and open burning
31
Equipment and vehicle use
28
Power generation/transmission/distribution
14
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
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
9 workings within 5 miles of Foster Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Tarrytown, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado.
The reports record 1 death and 6 injuries. 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.
The public reported street and basement flash flooding in Philipse Manor. There were also public reports of road closures along Route 9 due to flash flooding in Croton On Hudson.
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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