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

East Holliston Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 1,353 National Register listings published here for Middlesex County · listed in 2002 · 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

109 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of East Holliston Historic District between 2016 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
26 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
11 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMEDWAY
10 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMEDWAY

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of East Holliston Historic District: 22 past producers, 3 producers, 3 plants. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Hawkridge Bros--Ashland, Ma.IronPlant
Ashland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Holliston PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Castellucci and SonsGranitePast ProducerGranite
Milford Pink Granite QuarryGranitePast Producer
Simeone Stone CorpGranitePast ProducerGranite
Trimount Bituminous ProdGranitePast ProducerGranite
Ashland PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Ashland PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ashland Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Middlesex County

Maps showing this location

20 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
Addington Gardner House1.1 miles1990
Thomas Hollis Historic District1.2 miles1989
Morse-Tay-Leland-Hawes House1.2 miles1986
Isaac Bullard House1.3 miles1990
Deacon William Leland House1.3 miles1986
Joseph Twitchell House1.6 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02000636 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Middlesex CountyAll 1353 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.