Photograph of United States Post Office — Photograph by Doug Kerr from Upstate New York, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

US Post Office-Harrison

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The Harrison Post Office is a historic post office building located at Harrison in Westchester County, New York, United States. It was built in 1938 by the Office of the Supervising Architect under the direction of Louis A.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Harrison, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1989 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. US Post Office--Harrison - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 258 Halstead Ave., Harrison, 10528
When was it listed? May 1989
Category. building
Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
Town. Harrison town
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 88002524 - 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

456 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 456 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Harrison between 2000 and 2020, burning about 332 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 58 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	240
Smoking	71
Arson/incendiarism	58
Recreation and ceremony	28
Natural	23
Debris and open burning	16
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

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-Harrison: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Ritch Diorite Gneiss Rock Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	Unknown
Ritch Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Voorhis Diorite Gneiss Rock Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Voorhis Quarry	Granite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrison, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Harrison	$1,000	Tree down across Playland Parkway between Forest Avenue and Midland Avenue.
September 2021	Flash Flood	Harrison	-	The basement of a home on Thorne Place in Rye was flooding.
April 2007	Flood	Harrison	-	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Harrison	-	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 coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1897 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500 - 15 printings
1947 USGS Mamaroneck quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Mamaroneck quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Mamaroneck quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
African Cemetery	0.8 miles	2003
Peter Augustus Jay House	0.9 miles	1982
Albert E. and Emily Wilson House	1.3 miles	2007
Hadden-Margolis House	1.3 miles	2008
Bird Homestead	1.4 miles	2010
Timothy Knapp House and Milton Cemetery	1.4 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002524 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester County	All 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.