South School

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of South School between 2004 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 2 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 8,877 specimens collected within 10 miles of South School between 1781 and 1975: 4,068 Animalia, 2,529 Plantae, 2,066 Fungi, 127 Chromista, 75 Protozoa, 12 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Allen, A. B. Seymour, A. Buckman 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
	Cercospora violae Sacc.	1895	Ralph E. Smith	Hothouse, Mass. Agr. College, Amherst
	Septoria petroselini Desm.	1895	R. E. Smith	Hothouse, Mass. Agr. College
	Bombus bimaculatus Cresson, 1863	1899	[Not Stated]	Hatch Experiment Station
	Carex argyrantha Tuck. ex Dewey	1781	H. G. Jesup	Amherst in Hampshire Co., and Leverett in Franklin Co., Massachusetts. [Inferred counties from precise loc.]
	Carex foenea Willd.	1781	H. G. Jesup	And Leverett
	Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle	1810	J.E. Humphrey
	Ranunculus ambigens S.Watson	1831	S. Shurtleff
	Dactylis glomerata L.	1839	S J Ewer
	Solidago arguta Aiton	1841	Collector(s): Henry Holmes Babcock, Henry Griswold Jesup	Amherst
	Phlebiella vaga (Fr.) P.Karst.	1845	Illegible collector name
	Elodea nuttallii (Planch.) H.St.John	1847	H. G. Jesup
	Biatora sanguineoatra (Wulfen) Tuck.	1848	Tuckerman Edward

All 8,877 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of South School: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Asbestos, Emery, Barium-Barite. 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

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 - 6,014 words, 18 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 07001312, 18 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.