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Cardinal Cushing Center Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.

From the record

One of 138 National Register listings published here for Plymouth County · listed in 2018 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 369 Washington St., Hanover
When was it listed? August 2018
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100002782 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

249 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 249 fires within 5 miles of Cardinal Cushing Center Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 1 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	148
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	72
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	3
Natural	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	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HANOVER
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HANOVER
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HANOVER
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HANOVER
6 September 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MARSHFIELD
5 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MARSHFIELD

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cardinal Cushing Center Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cherry Street Plant, Mayflower	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Winter Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Plymouth 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.

1885 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
1888 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1920 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
1935 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:24000
1940 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1977 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:25000
1978 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1984 USGS Provincetown 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
Tack Factory, The	0.7 miles	1980
Pembroke Friends Meetinghouse	1.1 miles	2006
Hanover Center Historic District	1.2 miles	1996
Stetson House	1.2 miles	1979
Stetson-Ford House	1.9 miles	1998
Hatch Homestead and Mill Historic District	2.6 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002782 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Plymouth County	All 138 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.