Old Town Hall Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 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 2021 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 774, 842, 862, and 878 Tremont St., Duxbury
When was it listed? February 2021
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100006129 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

203 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Old Town Hall Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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	127
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	51
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
7 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MARSHFIELD
6 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MARSHFIELD
6 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MARSHFIELD
5 September 2018	Debris and open burning	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 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
4 September 2018	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire 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 Duxbury quadrangle1:62500
1888 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1918 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1941 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:25000
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:24000
1974 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:24000
1974 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:25000
1977 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:25000
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
First Parish Church	0.2 miles	1978
Capt. Gershom Bradford House	0.5 miles	1978
Capt. Gamaliel Bradford House	0.5 miles	1978
Captain Daniel Bradford House	0.7 miles	1986
John and Priscilla Alden Family Sites	1.0 miles	1978
Old Shipbuilder's Historic District	1.1 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100006129 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.