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Photograph of Pound Ridge Historic District
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Pound Ridge Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Pound Ridge Historic District is a national historic district located at Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York. The district contains 46 contributing buildings and encompasses almost all of the hamlet.”

Wikipedia article Pound Ridge Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1985 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Fires near this property

128 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Pound Ridge Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined54
Natural21
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use11
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Smoking7
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2

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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
23 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2019Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 August 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pound Ridge Historic District: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Feldspar, Quartz. 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
Hobby QuarriesFeldspar, QuartzPast Producer
Baylis Rock QuarryStonePast Producer
Baylis Rock QuarryStonePast Producer
Kinkel Gneiss Rock QuarriesStoneProducer
Kinkel Gneiss Rock QuarriesStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pound Ridge, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPound Ridge$8,000Multiple pictures of trees and power lines down across Route 137 near Pound Ridge Town Park.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindPound Ridge$7,000Numerous trees and wires down on the north side of town.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPound Ridge$2,000Tree and power pole down on NY 137 between NY 124 and Upper Shad Road.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindPound Ridge$750Route 172 between Bedford and Pound Ridge was blocked by a fallen tree.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindPound Ridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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
Palmer-Lewis Estate2.6 miles1998
Bedford Village Historic District3.3 miles1973
Osborn-Bouton-Mead House3.9 miles2004
Caramoor4.2 miles2001
South Salem Presbyterian Church Cemetery4.5 miles2014
Homestead, The5.1 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85003196 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.