Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
From the record
“US Post Office-Scarsdale is a historic post office building located at Scarsdale in Westchester County, New York, United States. It was built in 1937 and designed by consulting architects Schultze and Weaver for the Office of the Supervising Architect.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Scarsdale, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.
Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
Town. Scarsdale town
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number.88002428- 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
935 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 935 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Scarsdale
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 775 acres in total. 66 started naturally. 83 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
528
Smoking
126
Arson/incendiarism
83
Natural
66
Recreation and ceremony
56
Debris and open burning
26
Equipment and vehicle use
24
Power generation/transmission/distribution
15
Misuse of fire by a minor
9
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
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
1 working within 5 miles of US Post Office-Scarsdale: 1 plant.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silver. 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
Scarsdale, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 6 flash flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
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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