Marshfield Hills Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.

From the record

One of 138 National Register listings published here for Plymouth County · listed in 2009 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Bow, Highland, Main, Old Main, Pleasant and Prospect Sts., Glen, Marshfield
When was it listed? December 2009
Category. district
National Register reference number. 09001096 - 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

152 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Marshfield Hills Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 3 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	95
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Natural	3
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	2

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 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MARSHFIELD
6 September 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
6 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MARSHFIELD
6 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MARSHFIELD
5 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MARSHFIELD
5 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MARSHFIELD
4 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Plymouth 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 Marshfield Hills Historic District: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cherry Street Plant, Mayflower	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Marshfield Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Marshfield Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
South River Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
South River Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Plymouth 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.

1885 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500
1888 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1918 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1935 USGS Scituate quadrangle1:24000
1940 USGS Scituate quadrangle1:31680 - 4 printings
1947 USGS Scituate quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Scituate quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1974 USGS Scituate quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1974 USGS Scituate quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Scituate quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1984 USGS Scituate quadrangle1:25000 - 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
Capt. Benjamin James House	2.2 miles	1983
Hatch Homestead and Mill Historic District	2.3 miles	2009
Woodworth House	2.4 miles	1996
Bryant-Cushing House	2.7 miles	1976
Stetson-Ford House	2.9 miles	1998
Norwell Village Area Historic District	2.9 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09001096 in Record Group 79.
Plymouth County	All 138 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.