The Woodpile

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The Woodpile is a historic family estate and national historic district located at Bedford, Westchester County, New York. The district contains 17 contributing buildings, four contributing sites, and nine contributing structures.”
Wikipedia article The Woodpile, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1992 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Jct. of Croton Lake and Wood Rds., Mt. Kisco, 10549
When was it listed? February 1992
Category. district
Town. Bedford town
National Register reference number. 92000030 - 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 The Woodpile, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet covering The Woodpile, surveyed 1892

Fires near this property

260 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 260 fires within 5 miles of The Woodpile between 2000 and 2020, burning about 207 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 11 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	121
Natural	40
Smoking	29
Debris and open burning	22
Power generation/transmission/distribution	15
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Recreation and ceremony	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
9 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2008	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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of The Woodpile: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Somers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Baylis Rock Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Baylis Rock Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1892 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:62500 - 13 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Mount Kisco quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1982 USGS Mount Kisco quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
1998 USGS Mount Kisco quadrangle1:24000

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
Stonecrest	0.2 miles	2004
Richard H. Mandel House	1.1 miles	1996
St. Mark's Episcopal Church	1.5 miles	1991
Mount Kisco Municipal Complex	1.8 miles	1997
Stepping Stones	1.9 miles	2004
United Methodist Church and Parsonage	2.0 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000030 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.