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One of 86 National Register listings published here for Hampshire County · listed in 2023 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Forty Acres and Its Skirts Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. 23 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.
The listing
- Address. 130 113-115 123 River Dr., Hadley
- When was it listed? May 2023
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100008956 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
71 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Forty Acres and Its Skirts Historic District between 2003 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 | 30 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
| 15 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 30 August 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 8 July 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 5 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 4 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 22 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Forty Acres and Its Skirts Historic District: 8 producers, 7 past producers, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Brick Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Rock Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Granite Rock Quarry | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| 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 | ||
| Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Clay Pit | Brick Clay | Producer | Clay | |
| Clay Pit | Brick Clay | Producer | Clay |
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.
- 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 Mt Holyoke quadrangle1:24000
- 1941 USGS Mt Holyoke quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Mt Holyoke quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Mt Holyoke quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Mt Holyoke quadrangle1:25000
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Mt Holyoke quadrangle1:25000 - 4 printings
- 1964 USGS Mt Holyoke quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Mt. Holyoke 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Porter-Phelps-Huntington House | 0.1 miles | 1973 |
 | Old Mill Site Historic District | 0.6 miles | 1982 |
 | Hatfield Center Historic District | 1.0 miles | 1994 |
 | North Hadley Historic District | 1.4 miles | 1993 |
 | Upper Main Street Historic District | 1.4 miles | 1994 |
 | Mill-Prospect Street Historic District | 1.5 miles | 2002 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008956 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.