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Photograph of West Hatfield Historic District
Photograph by John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

West Hatfield Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 22 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 2005 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 3-12 Church Ave., 2 Linseed Rd., 23-42 West St., Hatfield
  • When was it listed? February 2005
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 05000079 - 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

58 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of West Hatfield Historic District between 2003 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural4

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
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 August 2016Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
14 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of West Hatfield Historic District: 9 producers, 9 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Brick Clay, Lead, Clay, Stone, Dimension. 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
Hatfield Lead MineBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast ProducerVein
Hatfield Lead MineBarium-Barite, Zinc, LeadProducerBarite, Galena, Sphalerite
Hatfield Lead MineBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Whately - Williamsburg Lead VeinsLead, ManganeseOccurrenceGalena
Granite Rock QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Granite Rock QuarryGranitePast Producer
Granite Rock QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Granite Rock QuarryGranitePast Producer
Whately Lead Vein OccurrenceLead, ManganeseOccurrenceGalena
Whately-Williamsburg Lead ProspectLead, ManganeseProspect

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

Maps showing this location

22 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
Mill-Prospect Street Historic District1.2 miles2002
Elm Street Historic District1.3 miles2000
Hatfield Center Historic District1.8 miles1994
Old Mill Site Historic District2.1 miles1982
Upper Main Street Historic District2.3 miles1994
Porter-Phelps-Huntington House2.5 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000079 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.