Clarke School for the Deaf Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 22 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.

From the record

One of 86 National Register listings published here for Hampshire County · listed in 2022 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 40-42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50 and 54 Round Hill Rd., Northampton
When was it listed? May 2022
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100007664 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

83 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Clarke School for the Deaf Historic District between 2001 and 2020, burning about 322 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 5 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	27
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Debris and open burning	14
Recreation and ceremony	10
Natural	7
Arson/incendiarism	5

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	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
27 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
2 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
18 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Sylvio O. Conte National Wildlife Refuge	MILL RV DIV MA-SCR #4
18 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Sylvio O. Conte National Wildlife Refuge	MILL RV DIV MA-SCR #3
17 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Sylvio O. Conte National Wildlife Refuge	MILL RV DIV MA-SCR #2
15 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Sylvio O. Conte National Wildlife Refuge	MILL RV DIV MA-SCR #1

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Clarke School for the Deaf Historic District: 11 producers, 11 past producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Brick Clay, Clay, Stone, Dimension, 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
Hatfield Lead Mine	Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Vein
Hatfield Lead Mine	Barium-Barite, Zinc, Lead	Producer	Barite, Galena, Sphalerite
Hatfield Lead Mine	Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Wzorek Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Granite Rock Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Granite Rock Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Bill Willard Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Florence Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Granite Rock Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

Maps showing this location

22 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 Northampton quadrangle1:62500
1886 USGS Northampton quadrangle1:62500
1891 USGS Northampton quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Northampton quadrangle1:62500
1895 USGS Northampton quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1896 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
1935 USGS Easthampton quadrangle1:24000
1939 USGS Easthampton quadrangle1:31680 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Easthampton quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Easthampton quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Easthampton quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Easthampton quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Easthampton quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Holyoke 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
Manse, The	0.2 miles	1976
Calvin Coolidge House	0.3 miles	1976
Smith Alumnae Gymnasium	0.4 miles	1976
Northampton Downtown Historic District	0.6 miles	1976
Northampton Downtown Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.6 miles	1985
Building at 8-22 Graves Avenue	0.6 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100007664 in Record Group 79.
Hampshire County	All 86 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.