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one of 272 National Register listings in Bristol County · listed in 2022 · category: Building · one of 8 National Historic Landmarks in Bristol County.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
S. Gourse & Sons Block
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 162-170 Pleasant St., Fall River
- When was it listed? 2022-12-09
- Category. building
- Township. Fall River city
- National Register reference number. 100008429 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
27 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of S. Gourse & Sons Block between 2001 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 16 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 8 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 23 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 23 July 2017 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 17 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 21 June 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 6 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 1,074 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,074 specimens collected within 10 miles of S. Gourse & Sons Block between 1844 and 1975: 594 Animalia, 369 Plantae, 78 Fungi, 29 Chromista, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A E Schuyler, A. B. Hervey, A. Macrae and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Hibiscus moscheutos subsp. moscheutos | 1844 | not recorded | |
 | Pluchea camphorata (L.) DC. | 1844 | not recorded | |
 | Ranunculus bulbosus L. | 1850 | not recorded | |
 | Vitis labrusca L. | 1850 | not recorded | |
 | Carex spicata Huds. | 1859 | Collector unspecified | Portsmouth. |
 | Scolopax minor J.F.Gmelin, 1789 | 1860 | Alan Poole | Westport |
 | Chondrus crispus Stackhouse | 1874 | F. Wolle | Fall River |
 | Conomitrium julianum (Savi ex DC.) Mont. | 1874 | unknown | Fall River |
 | Doellingeria umbellata (Mill.) Nees | 1874 | J. H. Redfield | |
 | Ectocarpus littoralis (L.) Lyngb. | 1874 | F. Wolle | Fall River |
 | Lathyrus japonicus var. glaber (Ser.) Fernald | 1874 | not recorded | |
 | Ulva latissima L. | 1874 | F. Wolle | Fall River |
All 1,074 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of S. Gourse & Sons Block: 1 unknown, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swansea Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Tiverton Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown |
Storms near this property
24 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fall River, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2018 | Flood | Fall River | $15,000 | At 1:25 PM EST, several cars were trapped in flood waters on Quequechan Street and Warren Street, near a Walmart store. The two streets were closed due to flooding. |
| June 2012 | Flood | Fall River | $15,000 | A car was stuck in flood waters on Milliken Boulevard. It had to be towed out of the water. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fall River | $10,000 | In Fall River, a building that was under renovation had a portion of the facade of the building collapse. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fall River | $10,000 | In Fall River, several trees and large branches were down including a tree on a car. |
| August 2018 | Flood | Fall River | $10,000 | At 12:37 PM EST, a basement at a house on Purchase Street in Fall River was reported flooded. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fall River | $5,000 | A tree on Robeson Street was downed by thunderstorm winds, blocking half the street. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fall River | $1,000 | In Fall River, there was a large tree blocking the road on Bush St. A tree also fell on a garage and two cars with a hole in the roof of the garage. |
| June 2017 | Flood | Fall River | $1,000 | At 915 AM EST, a heavy downpour flooded a section of Pleasant Street in Fall River with one lane blocked off. |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Fall River | - | In Fall River, several roads were flooded throughout town. |
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | Fall River | - | In Fall River, Brayton Ave at Pleasant St was flooded and impassable. |
| August 2023 | Flash Flood | Fall River | - | In Fall River, Plymouth Ave between I-95 and Pleasant St was flooded and impassable. |
| July 2023 | Flash Flood | Fall River | - | In Fall River, Broadway at Ponte Delgada Blvd. was flooded and impassable. |
| July 2023 | Flood | Fall River | - | In Fall River, Plymouth Ave was flooded and impassable with a car stuck. |
| August 2018 | Flood | Fall River | - | At 11:53 AM EST, the intersection of Quarry Street and Pleasant Street in Fall River was reported flooded and impassable. |
| October 2017 | Flood | Fall River | - | At 230 AM EST, Bedford Street near Sixth Street in Fall River was reported flooded. |
| July 2015 | Flood | Fall River | - | Warren Street was flooded and impassable. A car was stuck in flood waters on Pleasant Street at the intersection with Quarry Street. Manhole covers popped off due to flooding on Globe Street. |
| July 2015 | Flood | Fall River | - | Portions of Warren and Jefferson Streets were closed due to flooding. |
| August 2012 | Flood | Fall River | - | Davol Street was closed due to flooding near the Global Gas Station. |
| July 2009 | Flash Flood | Fall River | - | Several streets in Fall River and Forest Street in Attleborough were closed due to flooding. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Fall River | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Lightning | Fall River | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Fall River | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fall River | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Fall River | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Academy Building | under 500 feet | 1973 |
 | Church of the Ascension | under 500 feet | 1983 |
 | Central Congregational Church | 0.2 miles | 1983 |
 | Cataract Engine Company No. 3 | 0.2 miles | 1983 |
 | Sacred Heart School | 0.2 miles | 1987 |
 | Connell, William M., School | 0.3 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008429 in Record Group 79. |
| Bristol County | All 272 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.
- Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
- 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.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.