Millis Center Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 342 National Register listings published here for Norfolk County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Curve, Daniels, Exchange, Irving, Lavender, Main, Union Sts., Millis
When was it listed? September 2007
Category. district
National Register reference number. 07000944 - 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

94 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Millis Center Historic District between 2007 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Debris and open burning	26
Recreation and ceremony	19
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	3
Natural	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
26 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
25 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MEDFIELD
22 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
11 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	NORFOLK
11 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MEDWAY
10 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MEDWAY
10 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MEDWAY

Every fire recorded in Norfolk 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 Millis Center Historic District: 12 past producers, 8 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Needham Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Bates Bros Quarry	Granite	Producer
Holliston Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Simeone Stone Corp	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Walpole Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Franklin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Holliston Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Holliston Sand Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Irving Trucking Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Irving Trucking Company, Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Norfolk 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.

1887 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
1889 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1919 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1921 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
1940 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
1945 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:24000
1945 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1946 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1957 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1970 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:25000
1970 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:25000
1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
John Partridge House	0.5 miles	1974
Prospect Hill Cemetery	0.6 miles	2006
Oak Grove Farm	1.0 miles	2011
Ellice School	1.6 miles	2010
Vine Lake Cemetery	2.4 miles	2005
Medway Village Historic District	2.7 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000944 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Norfolk County	All 342 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.