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Photograph of Lockville Historic District
Photograph by John Phelan, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lockville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 23 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 86 National Register listings published here for Hampshire County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. College Hwy., Southampton
  • When was it listed? January 2001
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 00001657 - 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

1886 to 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Lockville Historic District, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet covering Lockville Historic District, surveyed 1886

Fires near this property

83 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Lockville Historic District between 2004 and 2020, burning about 457 acres in total. 11 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/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use27
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking4
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 August 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 August 2015Natural1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 August 2015Natural1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Lockville Historic District: 8 producers, 7 past producers, 3 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Dimension, Brick Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Clay PitClayPast Producer
LoudvilleMolybdenumOccurrenceWulfenite
Loudville Lead MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Barium-BariteProducerBarite, Galena
Loudville MineBarium-Barite, Lead, Silica, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Southampton AreaZinc, Lead, VanadiumOccurrenceDescloizite, Vanadinite
Southhampton Barite VeinLead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, MolybdenumProducerBarite, Galena
Southhampton Barite VeinBarium-Barite, Copper, Lead, Zinc, SilverPast Producer
Southhampton Barite Vein/Loudville Pb MineLead, SilverPast ProducerVein
Clay PitBrick ClayProducerClay

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Southampton Center Historic District0.5 miles1991
Center Cemetery1.4 miles2013
Town Farm, The4.7 miles1996
US Post Office-Easthampton Main4.7 miles1986
Main Street Historic District4.7 miles1986
Northampton State Hospital7.7 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001657 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.