Asbury Grove Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 17 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 2009 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Around Asbury St., Hamilton
When was it listed? November 2009
Category. district
National Register reference number. 09000935 - 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

65 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Asbury Grove Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 115 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 burning	20
Recreation and ceremony	12
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	1
Natural	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
7 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BEVERLY
4 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BEVERLY
21 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BEVERLY
7 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	TOPSFIELD
3 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
28 August 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	IPSWICH

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Asbury Grove Historic District: 4 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Thorium. 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
Thiokol Ventron Div--Danvers, Ma.	Thorium	Plant
Goodhue Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
R W Drinkwater	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
R W Drinkwater Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Topseal Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Maps showing this location

17 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.

1888 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1917 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500
1919 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Cape Ann quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Salem quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS Salem quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1956 USGS Salem quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1970 USGS Salem quadrangle1:25000
1970 USGS Salem quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Salem quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Salem quadrangle1:25000 - 3 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 Perkins House	0.8 miles	1990
Community House	1.1 miles	2011
Claflin-Richards House	1.4 miles	1973
Larch Farm	1.6 miles	1990
Wenham Historic District	1.7 miles	1973
Hamilton Historic District	1.8 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000935 in Record Group 79.
Essex County	All 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.