Riverside Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 16 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 2017 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 0-77 French King Hwy., 0-61 Riverview Dr., 1-9 Grove, 2-9 Myrtle, 8 Meadow, 2-23 Oak, 1-4 Pine & 3-32 Walnut Sts., Gill
When was it listed? September 2017
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100001617 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

40 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Riverside Village Historic District between 2017 and 2020, burning about 21 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 burning	27
Smoking	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	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
17 August 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 July 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 June 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 June 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
31 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
31 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
31 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 May 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Riverside Village Historic District: 5 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite, Copper, Iron, Copper, Barium-Barite. 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
Amphibolite Rock Quarry N	Stone	Past Producer
Turner Falls Copper Occurence North	Copper, Barium-Barite	Occurrence	Malachite
Turner Falls Copper Occurence Southwest	Barium-Barite, Copper, Iron	Occurrence
Turner Falls Copper Prospect	Barium-Barite, Copper	Prospect
Greenfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mackin Sand and Gravel Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Amphibolite Rock Quarry No. Bj6	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
East Deerfield Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Town of Greenfield Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Warner Brothers Inc	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

1890 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1936 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Brattleboro quadrangle1:125000
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:31680
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:25000
1975 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:25000
1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
1990 USGS Greenfield 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
Turner Falls Historic District	0.7 miles	1982
Gill Center Historic District	2.6 miles	2018
Weldon Hotel	2.9 miles	1980
East Main-High Street Historic District	3.0 miles	1989
US Post Office-Greenfield Main	3.1 miles	1985
Leavitt-Hovey House	3.2 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001617 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin County	All 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.