School Street-Main Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 18 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 138 National Register listings published here for Plymouth County · listed in 2025 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Main Street to the west, School Street to the north and east. and East Elm Street to the south, Brockton
When was it listed? August 2025
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. 100012152 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

447 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 447 fires within 5 miles of School Street-Main Street Historic District between 2005 and 2020, burning about 188 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	221
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	137
Misuse of fire by a minor	32
Recreation and ceremony	27
Smoking	16
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

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of School Street-Main Street 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.

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

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

Maps showing this location

18 surveys

United 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 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Brockton City Hall	under 500 feet	1976
Centre and Montello Streets Historic District	under 500 feet	2015
Curtis Building	under 500 feet	1982
Goldthwaite Block	under 500 feet	1982
Howard Block	under 500 feet	1982
Lyman Block	under 500 feet	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012152 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.