Rockwood Road Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 19 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 2017 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Roughly Rockwood Rd. from MBTA tracks to Boardman St., Norfolk
When was it listed? April 2017
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100000850 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

136 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Rockwood Road Historic District between 2007 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. None 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	53
Recreation and ceremony	46
Smoking	16
Debris and open burning	15
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
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
15 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WRENTHAM
13 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FRANKLIN
13 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FRANKLIN
12 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WALPOLE

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 Rockwood Road Historic District: 10 past producers, 10 producers, 2 unknowns. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Granite. 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
Bates Bros Quarry	Granite	Producer
Iron Mountain Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Needham Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Walpole Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Wrentham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Wrentham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Chestnut Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dedham Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dedham Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
J Colella and Son Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Maps showing this location

19 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 Wrentham quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
1945 USGS Wrentham quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Wrentham quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
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
1964 USGS Wrentham quadrangle1:25000
1964 USGS Wrentham quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Wrentham quadrangle1:25000
1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Franklin 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
Norfolk Grange Hall	0.3 miles	1989
Sullivan's Corner Historic District	0.7 miles	2012
Warelands	0.8 miles	1977
Stephen Turner House	1.9 miles	1979
Ellice School	2.3 miles	2010
Wrentham State School	2.3 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100000850 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.