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Dana Common Historic and Archaeological District

Built in 1801. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 18 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 686 National Register listings published here for Worcester County · listed in 2013 · category: District · built in 1801.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Gate 40 off Hardwick Rd., Petersham
When was it listed? March 2013
Category. district
When was it built? 1801
National Register reference number. 13000052 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

12 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Dana Common Historic and Archaeological District between 2015 and 2017, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
25 July 2016	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 June 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
18 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 April 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
20 April 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
19 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dana Common Historic and Archaeological District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
	Clarks Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Worcester 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.

1887 USGS Barre quadrangle1:62500
1889 USGS Barre quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Barre quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000 - 2 printings
1942 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
1946 USGS Petersham quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Petersham quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Petersham quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Petersham quadrangle1:25000
1969 USGS Petersham quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Petersham quadrangle1:25000
1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1988 USGS Barre quadrangle1:25000 - 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
Gay Farm	3.6 miles	1977
Petersham Common Historic District	5.2 miles	1982
Hardwick Village Historic District	5.3 miles	1991
Prescott Town House	5.7 miles	1989
Holland-Towne House	5.8 miles	1990
Barre Common District	6.1 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000052 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Worcester County	All 686 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.