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One of 174 National Register listings published here for Hampden County · listed in 2023 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Essex Street Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. 23 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Chestnut, Essex, and Pine Sts., Holyoke
- When was it listed? April 2023
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100008035 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
325 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 325 fires within 5 miles of Essex Street Historic District between 2014 and 2020, burning about 189 acres in total. 30 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 124 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 120 |
| Natural | 30 |
| Debris and open burning | 30 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 8 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 4 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 29 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 28 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 24 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 2 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 15 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 25 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Essex Street Historic District: 13 producers, 11 past producers, 1 occurrence. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Brick Clay, Clay, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Construction Aggregates Pit | Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Macia Emery Mine | Emery | Occurrence | Emery | |
| Ondrick Industries | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| South Hadlay Sand | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sandstone Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Sandstone Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Sandstone Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Granby Pit Ii | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Granby Quarry No 1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Producer | Sandstone |
Maps showing this location
23 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.
- 1886 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1889 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
- 1896 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
- 1920 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1933 USGS Chicopee quadrangle1:24000
- 1938 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:31680 - 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
- 1946 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:24000
- 1975 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:25000
- 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| War Memorial Building | 0.2 miles | 2022 | |
 | Wistariahurst | 0.2 miles | 1973 |
 | North High Street Historic District (Boundary Increase II) | 0.2 miles | 2008 |
 | Maplewood Hotel | 0.2 miles | 1983 |
| Maplewood Hotel | 0.2 miles | 1983 |
 | North High Street Historic District (Boundary Increase) | 0.3 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008035 in Record Group 79. |
| Hampden County | All 174 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.