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Photograph of Morton Street
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Morton Street, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

One of 345 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2005 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Morton St., Boston
  • When was it listed? January 2005
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston MPS
  • National Register reference number. 04001572 - 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.

Fires near this property

108 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Morton Street, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston between 2003 and 2020, burning about 426 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.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Smoking19
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBROOKLINE
2 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlQUINCY
17 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlDEDHAM
14 September 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlQUINCY
11 September 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlQUINCY
10 September 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlQUINCY

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Morton Street, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
West Roxbury Crushed Stone OperatioStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Newspapers printed here

8 papers

8 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
The Boston Courant1890 to 19??
The Boston Advance1896 to 1907
The New-England Chronicle1776
The Massachusetts Spy1770 to 1772
The Massachusetts Spy, Or, Thomas's Boston Journal1772 to 1775
The Boston Gazette, Or, Country Journal1755 to 1793
The Liberator1831 to 1865
The Guardian1901 to 1960

Maps showing this location

17 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
Benjamin Silverman Apartments0.3 miles2018
Buildings at 825-829 Blue Hill Avenue0.6 miles2014
Cartoof & Sherman Apartments0.7 miles2020
Forest Hills Cemetery0.7 miles2004
Esmond Street Historic District0.7 miles2018
Fowler-Clark-Epstein Farmstead0.7 miles2020

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04001572 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Suffolk CountyAll 345 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.