Gill Center Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 19 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 2018 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Center, Main, Cross, Boyle, River, & Lyons Hill Rds., Gill
When was it listed? November 2018
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100003068 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1890 to 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Gill Center Historic District, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet covering Gill Center Historic District, surveyed 1890

Fires near this property

32 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Gill Center Historic District between 2017 and 2020, burning about 18 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	23
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
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
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
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
17 May 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
30 April 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
29 April 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Gill Center Historic District: 7 past producers, 4 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Slate, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Bernardston Magnetite Occurence	Iron, Sulfur, Copper	Occurrence	Replacement
Bernardston Magnetite Occurrence	Iron, Copper, Sulfur	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
Amphibolite Rock Quarry N	Stone	Past Producer
Amphibolite Rock Quarry N	Stone	Past Producer
Amphibolite Rock Quarry No. Bj5	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Amphibolite Rock Quarry No. Bj6	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
North Bernardston Slate Quarry	Slate, Dimension	Producer	Metamorphic

Every working recorded in Franklin 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.

1890 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1936 USGS Bernardston quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS Bernardston quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Brattleboro quadrangle1:125000
1945 USGS Bernardston quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Bernardston quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Bernardston quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Bernardston quadrangle1:25000
1977 USGS Bernardston quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1977 USGS Bernardston quadrangle1:25000
1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
1990 USGS Bernardston quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1998 USGS Bernardston quadrangle1:25000

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
Simeon Alexander Jr. House	2.0 miles	1991
Riverside Village Historic District	2.6 miles	2017
Bernardston Congregational Unitarian Church	3.2 miles	1993
Turner Falls Historic District	3.2 miles	1982
Powers Institute Historic District	3.4 miles	1994
Millers Falls Village Historic District	4.0 miles	2021

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003068 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.