Somerset Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. 18 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.

From the record

One of 389 National Register listings published here for Bristol County · listed in 2020 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Avon St., Borland Ave., Cherry St., Church St., Clark St., Dublin St., High St., Main St., Maple St., Marsh St., Old Colony Ave., Palmer St., Peterson St., Pierce Ln., Pleasant St., School St., Simms Ave., and South St., Somerset
When was it listed? March 2020
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100005075 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

40 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Somerset Village Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 52 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
20 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
16 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
6 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 August 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 July 2017	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
20 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Somerset Village Historic District: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 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
Assonet Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
East Freetown Pit & Assonet Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lanzisera Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Randy Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Swansea Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant

Every working recorded in Bristol 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.

1885 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
1888 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1918 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Providence quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:31680 - 4 printings
1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1948 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:25000
1967 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:25000
1979 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:50000
1984 USGS Providence quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:25000 - 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
Valentine-French House	1.6 miles	1983
Luther Winslow Jr. House	1.6 miles	1983
North Christian Congregational Church	1.8 miles	1983
Ashley House	2.1 miles	1983
Walkden Farm	2.3 miles	1990
Bark Street School	2.3 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100005075 in Record Group 79.
Bristol County	All 389 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.