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Photograph of Medway Village Historic District
Photograph by John Phelan, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Medway Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 20 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 2008 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

114 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Medway Village Historic District between 2007 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined41
Recreation and ceremony29
Debris and open burning23
Smoking12
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
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
24 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlFRANKLIN
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlFRANKLIN
13 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlFRANKLIN
13 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlFRANKLIN
11 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlNORFOLK
11 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMEDWAY
10 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMEDWAY

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Medway Village Historic District: 17 past producers, 6 producers, 1 plant. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, 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
Holliston PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Castellucci and SonsGranitePast ProducerGranite
Milford Pink Granite QuarryGranitePast Producer
Simeone Stone CorpGranitePast ProducerGranite
Carl A MolinariSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Carl A. Molinari PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Franklin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
High Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Holliston PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Holliston Sand CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Maps showing this location

20 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
Evergreen Cemetery1.4 miles2021
Rabbit Hill Historic District1.9 miles1988
Ellice School2.0 miles2010
Prospect Hill Cemetery2.2 miles2006
Millis Center Historic District2.7 miles2007
John Partridge House3.0 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08001191 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Norfolk CountyAll 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.