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One of 389 National Register listings published here for Bristol County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.
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Ashworth Brothers Mill
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.
The listing
- Address. 89 Globe Mills Ave., Fall River
- When was it listed? August 2023
- Category. building
- National Register reference number. 100009284 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
20 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Ashworth Brothers Mill between 2006 and 2020, burning about 33 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 | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
| 23 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 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 |
| 5 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 28 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 26 April 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Rhode Island Division of Forest Environment | not named |
| 21 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 20 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ashworth Brothers Mill: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 3 still produce. 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 | ||
| Kidd Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Pca Construction Company | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Tiverton Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown |
Maps showing this location
16 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 Fall River quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
- 1919 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Providence quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:31680 - 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
- 1948 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1967 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:25000
- 1977 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:25000
- 1984 USGS Providence quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:25000 - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Sanford Spinning Co. | 0.1 miles | 1983 |
 | Oliver Chase's Thread Mill | 0.2 miles | 1983 |
 | Algonquin Printing Co. | 0.3 miles | 1983 |
 | Wyoming Mills | 0.3 miles | 2024 |
 | Globe Yarn Mills | 0.4 miles | 1983 |
 | Ariadne J. and Mary A. Borden House | 0.5 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009284 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Bristol County | All 389 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.