Northfield Center Cemetery

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Northfield Center Cemetery between 2016 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. None 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.

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

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 735 specimens collected within 10 miles of Northfield Center Cemetery between 1847 and 1975: 320 Animalia, 171 Plantae, 133 Fungi, 111 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S Pease, A. Cronquist, A. J. Grout 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
	Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt	1896	Leonard, F.E.	Northfield, Mass.
	Cinna latifolia (Trevir. ex Göpp.) Griseb.	1847	Russell
	unnamed (fossil)	1867	Othniel C. Marsh	Black shale (property of T. M. Stoughton, 1871 Beer County map, previously owned by Dr. Roswell Field) south side of Connecticut River, Horse Race, Montague
	Potamogeton bicupulatus Fernald	1895	A. J. Grout	Lily Pond
	Rhexia virginica L.	1895	A. J. Grout	Lily Pond
	Carex plantaginea Lam.	1896	Sydney Harris	Woods near Factory Village [Note: Location found by Geolocate is in Franklin County]
	Dryopteris intermedia (Muhl. ex Willd.) A.Gray	1896	Leonard, F.E.	Northfield
	Cronartium comptoniae Arthur	1928	Spaulding P.	Turners Falls
	Apanteles Förster, 1863	1929	J. Schaffner	Bernardston
	Fusicladium saliciperdum (Allesch. & Tubeuf) Lind	1929	Spaulding P.	Leyden
	Lycopodium obscurum L.	1930	M.M. Metcalf	Northfield, Massachusetts.
	Ophioglossum pusillum Raf.	1930	not recorded	Northfield.

All 735 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Northfield Center Cemetery: 5 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Sulfur, Copper. 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 Franklin County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northfield, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 24 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 lightning. 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 Franklin County

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 - 8,974 words, 56 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 04001220, 56 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.