Manchaug Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

One of 686 National Register listings published here for Worcester County · listed in 2018 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Putnam Hill, Whitins, Morse, Mumford & Manchaug Rds. Ledge, Main, 3rd & Maple Sts., Stevens Pond, Sutton
When was it listed? January 2018
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100002026 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

49 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Manchaug Village Historic District between 2007 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	14
Smoking	10
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
6 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
19 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
31 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
25 July 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Manchaug Village Historic District: 16 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. 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
Armour Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Barnett Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Boston Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
De Gaetano Brothers Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Direnzo Brothers Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Douglas Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gilbon Mountain Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Guiou Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Hutnak Construction Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Johnson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Worcester 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.

1889 USGS Webster quadrangle1:62500
1892 USGS Webster quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1908 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000 - 3 printings
1921 USGS Webster quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000
1946 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:31680 - 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 Oxford quadrangle1:24000
1969 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1969 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:25000
1975 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:25000
1982 USGS Webster quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
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
Waters Farm	2.0 miles	1985
Hayward Mill	2.3 miles	1991
E. N. Jenckes Store	2.4 miles	1988
Old Douglas Center Historic District	2.4 miles	2001
West Sutton Historic District	3.2 miles	2001
N. Williams House	3.8 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002026 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Worcester County	All 686 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.