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US Post Office-Dobbs Ferry

Built in 1936 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The United States Post Office in Dobbs Ferry, New York serves the ZIP Code 10522, which covers the village of Dobbs Ferry. It is a brick Colonial Revival structure located at the corner of Main and Oak streets, in the downtown section.”

Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Dobbs Ferry, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1936, Colonial Revival architecture, by Louis A. Simon.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. US Post Office--Dobbs Ferry - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Main St., Dobbs Ferry, 10522
  • When was it listed? November 1988
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
  • Town. Greenburgh town
  • When was it built? 1936
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • Architect. Louis A. Simon
  • National Register reference number. 88002484 - 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

656 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 656 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Dobbs Ferry between 2000 and 2020, burning about 925 acres in total. 63 started naturally. 70 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/undetermined383
Arson/incendiarism70
Natural63
Recreation and ceremony49
Smoking34
Equipment and vehicle use22
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Debris and open burning11
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes4

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 2015Naturalunder 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 2016Recreation and ceremony6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Dobbs Ferry: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Taverniere & JohnsonStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1897, 1908
Sparkill Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Sparkill PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dobbs Ferry, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2002: 2 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
August 2002Thunderstorm WindDobbs Ferry-Local police reported a large tree in Dobbs Ferry was knocked over during this storm. Local newspapers reported a path of downed trees, tree limbs and power lines that stretched from the Hudson River to Long Island Sound across central Westchester County. As a result, about 20,000 residents in the county lost power.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindDobbs Ferry-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
Zion Episcopal Churchunder 500 feet2020
Church of St. Joseph of Arimathea0.1 miles2002
South Presbyterian Church0.1 miles2000
Estherwood and Carriage House0.2 miles1979
Hyatt-Livingston House0.5 miles1972
Nuits0.7 miles1977

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88002484 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.