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Photograph of Union Hall
Photograph by dougtone (Doug Kerr), CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Union Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Union Hall is a historic commercial building located at North Salem, Westchester County, New York. It is impossible to trace its original owner and the date it was built is unknown due to omissions in the Land Records Office in White Plains.”

Wikipedia article Union Hall (North Salem, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NY 116 and Keeler Ln., North Salem, 10560
  • When was it listed? August 1986
  • Category. building
  • Town. North Salem town
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 86001978 - 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

1892 to 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Union Hall, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet covering Union Hall, surveyed 1892

Fires near this property

163 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Union Hall between 2000 and 2020, burning about 131 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined82
Arson/incendiarism20
Smoking16
Natural12
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Union Hall: 9 past producers, 4 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Copper, Sulfur, 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
Brewster MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Croton Magnetite Iron MinesIron, CopperPast Producer1880
Pegmatite QuarryMica, QuartzPast Producer
Ridgefield Pegmatite QuarryFeldspar, QuartzPast ProducerFeldspar
Ridgefield QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Croton - Theall Magnetite MineIron, Copper, SulfurPast Producer1880, 1883
Croton-Mc Collum Magnetite MineIron, Copper, SulfurPast Producer1843, 1880
Croton-Theall Magnetite MineIron, Copper, SulfurPast Producer
Brady Farm ShaftIronProspect
Brewster MinesIronPast Producer1810

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Salem, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. 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 WindNorth Salem$75,000Microburst resulting in a track of downed trees of 250 yards along Route 22.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindNorth Salem$3,000Trees were reported down in town.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindNorth Salem$1,000Law enforcement reported a downed tree in town.
July 2023Flash FloodNorth Salem-DOT reports flooding and road closure on NY 116 in both directions between North Road and Hunt Lane with all lanes closed.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindNorth Salem-Trees down.
July 1996Funnel CloudNorth Salem-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindNorth Salem-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
North Salem Town Hall1.5 miles1980
Somers Hamlet Historic District3.0 miles2004
Mead Memorial Chapel3.1 miles1999
Waccabuc Historic District3.3 miles2015
Homestead, The3.8 miles2001
South Salem Presbyterian Church Cemetery4.4 miles2014

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86001978 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.