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Photograph of Shelburne Falls
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Shelburne Falls Historic District (Boundary Increase 2010)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1890.

From the record

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2010 · 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

30 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Shelburne Falls Historic District (Boundary Increase 2010) between 2002 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. None 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning23
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
8 May 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 April 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 April 2003Debris and open burning5.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 April 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Shelburne Falls Historic District (Boundary Increase 2010): 4 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Iron, Sulfur, Iron, Sulfur. 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
Gossan - Not ProspectedIron, SulfurOccurrence
Gossan In East Oxbow BrookIron, SulfurOccurrence
Gossan In East Oxbow Brook ProspectIron, SulfurOccurrence
Gossan OccurrenceIron, SulfurOccurrence
Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Luther Smith Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
Luther Smith Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000161 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin CountyAll 60 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.