Bartlett's Bridge

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Bartlett's Bridge between 2015 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,689 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bartlett's Bridge between 1839 and 1975: 959 Plantae, 452 Animalia, 253 Fungi, 17 Unrecorded, 4 Chromista, 4 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A E WOODHEAD, A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Ochrolechia tartarea (L.) A.Massal.	1839	E. Tuckerman
	Carex laxiflora Lam.	1840	Thomas Nuttall	Cambridge.
	Carex vestita Willd.	1840	Thomas Nuttall	Cambridge.
	Mycobilimbia hypnorum (Lib.) Kalb & Hafellner	1848	E. Tuckerman
	Cladonia cornucopioides F.Wilson	1850	J. L. Russell	Leicester
	Geranium maculatum L.	1850	not recorded
	Packera aurea (L.) Á.Löve & D.Löve	1850	not recorded
	Carex aperta Boott	1853	W. Boott	Massachusetts
	Elymus repens (L.) Gould	1892	Arthur B. Seymour	Cambridge.
	Festuca pratensis Huds.	1892	Arthur B. Seymour	Cambridge.
	Hepatica americana (DC.) Ker Gawl.	1892	Clarence Kinney
	Leucobryum vulgare Hampe	1892	unknown

All 1,689 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Bartlett's Bridge: 16 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Worcester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oxford, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 flood, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

Every storm recorded in Worcester County

Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in one, read straight off the scanned sheet.

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  Hotel Bartlett

  Hotel

  Named in 1910

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

The whole case file for this property - 4,353 words, 16 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 00000077, 16 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

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.