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One of 183 National Register listings published here for Berkshire County · listed in 2022 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
New Boston Village Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.
The listing
- Address. 97-101 North Main and 79-110 South Main Sts. (MA 8), 2-4 Tolland (MA 57), 3-22 Sandisfield, (MA 57), and 2 River Rds., 4 Cannon Mountain and 3 & 5 Willow Lns., Sandisfield
- When was it listed? April 2022
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100007554 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1888 to 1997The ground this property stands on, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
8 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of New Boston Village Historic District between 2016 and 2019, burning about 24 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 July 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 3 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 30 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 21 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 17 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Connecticut Division of Forestry | 432 COLEBROOK RIVE |
| 16 April 2016 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 6 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 31 January 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Maps showing this location
21 surveysUnited 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.
- 1888 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1897 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
- 1899 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
- 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
- 1907 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
- 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Tolland quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Tolland quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Tolland quadrangle1:25000
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Tolland Center quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Tolland Center quadrangle1:25000
- 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Tolland Center quadrangle1:25000
- 1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Tolland Center quadrangle1:25000
- 1997 USGS Tolland Center quadrangle1:25000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | New Boston Inn | 0.3 miles | 1988 |
 | Montville Baptist Church | 2.6 miles | 2006 |
 | Philemon Sage House | 4.4 miles | 1982 |
 | East Otis Schoolhouse | 6.1 miles | 2021 |
 | Thomas Shepard House | 6.2 miles | 1984 |
 | Otis Center Historic District | 7.1 miles | 2022 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007554 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Berkshire County | All 183 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.