Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.
From the record
“Elmsford Reformed Church and Cemetery is a historic Dutch Reformed church/meeting house and cemetery at 30 S. Central Avenue in Elmsford, Westchester County, New York, United States.”
Wikipedia article Elmsford Reformed Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.83001828- 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
841 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 841 fires within 5 miles of Elmsford Reformed Church and Cemetery
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 730 acres in total. 68 started naturally. 71 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
484
Smoking
76
Arson/incendiarism
71
Natural
68
Recreation and ceremony
61
Equipment and vehicle use
32
Debris and open burning
19
Power generation/transmission/distribution
18
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
5 workings within 5 miles of Elmsford Reformed Church and Cemetery: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Molybdenum, Rhenium, Tungsten, Tantalum. 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
Elmsford, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 14 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 hail.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
Department of Transportation Reported a tree down causing a road closure on Route 9A between Worthington Road and Sprain Brook Parkway Drive in Greenburgh.
The intersection of Tarrytown Rd. and Knollwood Rd. in Elmsford was closed due to flooding. Total reported rainfall amounts in Westchester County ranged from 2.75 inches in Mamaroneck to 3.70 inches at Westchester County Airport.
Babbitt Court in Elmsford was under several ft. of water from the Saw Mill River rising out of its banks, requiring one family to be rescued from their home by the local fire department. The overflowing river also caused portions of Rt. 119 and several side streets throughout Elmsford to be closed, causing untold damage to homes and businesses.
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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