Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
From the record
“48th Police Precinct Station is a historic police station located at 1925 Bathgate Avenue in the Tremont neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City. It was completed in 1901 and is a freestanding, three story rectangular block, seven bays wide.”
Wikipedia article 48th Police Precinct Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 91 National Register listings published here for Bronx County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.83001639- 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
1891 to 1995
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18911995
Fires near this property
2,798 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2,798 fires within 5 miles of 48th Police Precinct Station
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 766 acres in total. 168 started naturally. 145 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
1971
Smoking
174
Natural
168
Recreation and ceremony
158
Arson/incendiarism
145
Debris and open burning
72
Equipment and vehicle use
61
Misuse of fire by a minor
30
Power generation/transmission/distribution
9
Railroad operations and maintenance
6
Other causes
4
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
10 workings within 5 miles of 48th Police Precinct Station: 7 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 plant.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Garnet, Palladium, Platinum, Titanium, Gemstone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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