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One of 345 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2023 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Elm Hill Avenue-Georgia Street-Cheney Street Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
The listing
- Address. Elm Hill Ave, Cheney, Georgia, Hartwell, Homestead, Maple, Montana, Pleasanton, and Ruthven Sts., Boston
- When was it listed? August 2023
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100009285 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
74 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Elm Hill Avenue-Georgia Street-Cheney Street Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 44 |
| Smoking | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 2 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BROOKLINE |
| 2 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | QUINCY |
| 14 September 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | QUINCY |
| 11 September 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | QUINCY |
| 7 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | QUINCY |
| 6 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | MILTON |
| 28 August 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | MILTON |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Elm Hill Avenue-Georgia Street-Cheney Street Historic District: 7 plants, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. J. Mabardy | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Us Gypsum Co--Boston | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| West Roxbury Crushed Stone Operatio | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Whittemore Prdts Inc--Boston | Perlite | Plant | ||
| (Facility) Cambridge Smelter Co | Lead | Plant | ||
| General Metals & Smelting--Boston | Lead | Plant | ||
| Industrial Serv. Centers--Cambridge | Iron | Plant | ||
| Somerville Smelting Co. | Lead | Plant | ||
| Us Steel Supply Div--Boston | Iron | Plant | ||
| Wheelock-Lovejoy--Cambridge, Ma. | Iron | Plant |
Newspapers printed here
8 papers8 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The Boston Courant | 1890 to 19?? |
| The Boston Advance | 1896 to 1907 |
| The New-England Chronicle | 1776 |
| The Massachusetts Spy | 1770 to 1772 |
| The Massachusetts Spy, Or, Thomas's Boston Journal | 1772 to 1775 |
| The Boston Gazette, Or, Country Journal | 1755 to 1793 |
| The Liberator | 1831 to 1865 |
| The Guardian | 1901 to 1960 |
Maps showing this location
17 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.
- 1893 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500 - 13 printings
- 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000
- 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
- 1956 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:24000
- 1970 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000
- 1977 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000
- 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Boston 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Crawford Street Historic District | under 500 feet | 2020 |
| Homestead Street Apartments Historic District | 0.1 miles | 2023 | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison School | 0.2 miles | 1980 |
 | Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church | 0.2 miles | 1983 |
 | Elm Hill Park Historic District | 0.3 miles | 2021 |
| Humboldt Avenue Historic District | 0.3 miles | 2021 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009285 in Record Group 79. |
| Suffolk County | All 345 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.