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Photograph of Haverhill Historical Society Historic District
Photograph by John Phelan, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Haverhill Historical Society Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.

From the record

One of 480 National Register listings published here for Essex 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. 240 Water St., Haverhill
  • When was it listed? June 2005
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 05000560 - 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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Haverhill Historical Society Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning17
Recreation and ceremony14
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1

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
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlGROVELAND
27 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHAVERHILL
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHAVERHILL
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHAVERHILL
8 August 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlGROVELAND
5 August 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlGROVELAND

Every fire recorded in Essex 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 Haverhill Historical Society Historic District: 15 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Groveland PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Trimount Bituminous Prdts CoStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Center Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
City of HaverhillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
East Broadway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Haverhill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Haverhill Sand CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Haverhill Sand Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Heath PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Henry D Lay PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Essex County

Maps showing this location

21 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
Hazen-Spiller House0.2 miles1990
School Street School0.3 miles1986
Peabody School0.7 miles1986
Main Street Historic District0.7 miles2003
Bradford Common Historic District0.7 miles1977
Emerson House0.8 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000560 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Essex CountyAll 480 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.