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Davenport Estate Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 342 National Register listings published here for Norfolk County · listed in 2018 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 1465, 1485, 1493 Brush Hill Rd., Milton
When was it listed? May 2018
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100002421 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

155 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Davenport Estate Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 93 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
Recreation and ceremony	69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42
Smoking	34
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Debris and open burning	4
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
6 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WESTWOOD
3 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	DEDHAM
29 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BRAINTREE
2 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	DEDHAM
17 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	DEDHAM
14 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	QUINCY
1 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	DEDHAM

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Davenport Estate Historic District: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
West Roxbury Crushed Stone Operatio	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Canton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Canton Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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.

1886 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1919 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:31680 - 4 printings
1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
1946 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:25000
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1971 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:25000
1971 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:25000
1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Norwood 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
Comfort Station	0.3 miles	1980
Paul's Bridge	0.8 miles	1972
Great Blue Hill Weather Observatory	0.9 miles	1980
Great Blue Hill Observation Tower	0.9 miles	1980
Eliot Memorial Bridge	0.9 miles	1980
Eustis Estate Historic District	0.9 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002421 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.