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Photograph of Irvington Town Hall
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Irvington Town Hall

Built in 1902 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Irvington Town Hall is located on Main Street in the village of Irvington in the U.S. state of New York. In addition to being home to the village government, police department, and until 2000 the public library, it has a public reading room in keeping with the requirements of the original land deed.”

Wikipedia article Irvington Town Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1902, Colonial Revival architecture.

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.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. 85 Main St., Irvington, 10533
  • When was it listed? November 1984
  • Category. building
  • Town. Greenburgh town
  • When was it built? 1902
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 84000205 - 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

710 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 710 fires within 5 miles of Irvington Town Hall between 2000 and 2020, burning about 964 acres in total. 68 started naturally. 67 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/undetermined402
Natural68
Arson/incendiarism67
Smoking56
Recreation and ceremony51
Equipment and vehicle use29
Debris and open burning16
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes2

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2003Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Irvington Town Hall: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum, Rhenium. 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
Dobbs Ferry PlantMolybdenum, Rhenium, Tungsten, TantalumProducer
Sparkill Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Sparkill PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Irvington, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2018Thunderstorm WindIrvington$2,000On Broadway Road near Route 9, large tree limbs and branches down.
July 2022HailIrvington-Spotter report of 1 inch hail.
September 2021Flash FloodEast Irvington-East Sunnyside Lane was flooded and impassable in Irvington with water more than a foot deep in spots. Widespread flooding was also occurring elsewhere in the village.
September 2021Flash FloodIrvington-All lanes were closed in both directions due to flooding on US 9 in the vicinity of West Clinton Avenue in Irvington.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindIrvington-no account filed

Every storm 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
Croton Aqueduct, Oldunder 500 feet1974
Irvington Historic Districtunder 500 feet2014
McVickar House0.1 miles2004
Church of St. Barnabas0.1 miles2000
Lord and Burnham Building0.2 miles1999
Villa Lewaro0.3 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84000205 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.
  • 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.