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One of 138 National Register listings published here for Plymouth County · listed in 2024 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
North Downtown Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 18 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Main and North Main Streets between Linden Street to the north, Legion Parkway to the south, extending west to Warren Avenue between Spring Street to the north and Legion Parkway to the south, Brockton
- When was it listed? August 2024
- Category. district
- Also known as. Historic Resources of Downtown Brockton Dating to the Height of the Shoe Industry, 1840- 1946 MPS
- National Register reference number. 100010689 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
439 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 439 fires within 5 miles of North Downtown Historic District between 2005 and 2020, burning about 186 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 213 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 134 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 31 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 30 |
| Smoking | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BROCKTON |
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BROCKTON |
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | ABINGTON |
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | ABINGTON |
| 8 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BROCKTON |
| 8 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | ABINGTON |
| 7 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | STOUGHTON |
| 7 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BROCKTON |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of North Downtown Historic District: 9 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simeone Stone Corp | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Stoughton Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| A Edward Sarni | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Avon Building Supply Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Avon Building Supply Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Boston Sand and Gravel Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Brockton Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Brockton Sand & Gravel Company Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gerald Kelleher Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Klondyke Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Maps showing this location
18 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 Dedham quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
- 1919 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:24000
- 1941 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
- 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
- 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:24000
- 1975 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:25000
- 1975 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:25000
- 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Brockton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | New England Telephone and Telegraph Engineering Office | under 500 feet | 2019 |
 | Central Fire Station | under 500 feet | 1977 |
 | Dr. Edgar Everett Dean House | under 500 feet | 1978 |
 | Lyman Block | 0.1 miles | 1982 |
 | Howard Block | 0.2 miles | 1982 |
 | Goldthwaite Block | 0.2 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010689 in Record Group 79. |
| Plymouth County | All 138 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.