Dudley Hill Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 18 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 2019 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Center, Dudley Oxford Rd., Dudley Southbridge, Ramshorn & Tanyard Rds., Dudley
When was it listed? December 2019
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100004707 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

51 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Dudley Hill Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Recreation and ceremony	7
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
22 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Connecticut Division of Forestry	11 HOLMES STREET
19 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Connecticut Division of Forestry	1017 RIVERSIDE DRIVE
19 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Connecticut Division of Forestry	1175 RIVERSIDE DRIVE
8 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
6 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
28 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Connecticut Division of Forestry	1405 RIVERSIDE DR, THOMPSON
27 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Connecticut Division of Forestry	RIVERSIDE DRIVE

Every fire recorded in Worcester 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 Dudley Hill Historic District: 13 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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	Recorded
New Haven Traprock Co. Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Charlton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kappys Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kaprys Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Leo Construction Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Old Webster Road Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ricciardi Asphalt Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Robbins Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Southbridge Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sunny Shores, Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Worcester County

Maps showing this location

18 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
1945 USGS Webster quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Webster quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Webster quadrangle1:31680
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS Webster quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1969 USGS Webster quadrangle1:25000
1975 USGS Webster 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
Black Tavern (Boundary Increase)	0.2 miles	2010
Black Tavern	0.2 miles	1985
Duck Mill	0.2 miles	1985
Stevens Linen Works Historic District	2.0 miles	2010
Shumway Block	2.3 miles	1980
Eddy Block	2.3 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004707 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.