Millers Falls Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2021 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Bridge, Church, Crescent, East Main, and West Main Sts., Montague
When was it listed? November 2021
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100007171 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

22 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Millers Falls Village Historic District between 2017 and 2020, burning about 13 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	13
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
17 August 2020	Smoking	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
23 May 2020	Recreation and ceremony	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
22 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
2 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
19 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
18 April 2018	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

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Millers Falls Village Historic District: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite, Copper, Iron, Copper, Barium-Barite. 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
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
Greenfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mackin Sand and Gravel Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
East Deerfield Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Town of Greenfield Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Warner Brothers Inc	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

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.

1887 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
1889 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1935 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1936 USGS Millers Falls quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS Millers Falls quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1942 USGS Keene quadrangle1:125000
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Millers Falls quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Millers Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Millers Falls quadrangle1:25000
1977 USGS Millers Falls quadrangle1:25000
1977 USGS Millers Falls quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
1990 USGS Orange 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
Riverside Village Historic District	3.3 miles	2017
Alvah Stone Mill	3.6 miles	1997
Montague Center Historic District	3.7 miles	2001
Turner Falls Historic District	3.8 miles	1982
Gill Center Historic District	4.0 miles	2018
Simeon Alexander Jr. House	4.3 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100007171 in Record Group 79.
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.