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Photograph of Westside Historic District
Photograph by DyanFrench, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Westside Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 23 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.

From the record

One of 86 National Register listings published here for Hampshire County · listed in 2000 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

58 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Westside Historic District between 2001 and 2020, burning about 305 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 July 2004Naturalunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 July 2016Natural5.3 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
14 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Westside Historic District: 6 past producers, 5 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Brick Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Leverett Barite ProspectBarium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, CopperOccurrenceReplacement Vein
Pelham QuarryAsbestos, EmeryPast Producer
Amherst Plant No. 5Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Amherst Quarry Plant#5Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Clay PitBrick ClayProducerClay
Clay PitBrick ClayProducerClay
Clay PitClayPast Producer
Clay PitClayPast Producer
Blakeslee-Arpaia-Chapman S&G CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
D D Ruxton Co IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

Maps showing this location

23 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.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000793 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hampshire CountyAll 86 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.