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Photograph of Center Cemetery
Photograph by DyanFrench, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Center Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 23 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 86 National Register listings published here for Hampshire County · listed in 2013 · category: Site.

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

The listing

  • Address. 178 College Hwy (Rte 10), Southhampton
  • When was it listed? April 2013
  • Category. site
  • National Register reference number. 13000170 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1886 to 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Center Cemetery, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet covering Center Cemetery, surveyed 1886

Fires near this property

76 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Center Cemetery between 2004 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Natural10
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 August 2015Natural1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 August 2015Natural1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
19 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 July 2018Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Center Cemetery: 10 producers, 9 past producers, 3 occurrences. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Brick Clay, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
LoudvilleMolybdenumOccurrenceWulfenite
Loudville Lead MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Barium-BariteProducerBarite, Galena
Loudville MineBarium-Barite, Lead, Silica, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Sandstone QuarryStone, DimensionProducerSandstone
Southampton AreaZinc, Lead, VanadiumOccurrenceDescloizite, Vanadinite
Southhampton Barite VeinLead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, MolybdenumProducerBarite, Galena
Southhampton Barite VeinBarium-Barite, Copper, Lead, Zinc, SilverPast Producer
Southhampton Barite Vein/Loudville Pb MineLead, SilverPast ProducerVein
Clay PitClayPast Producer
Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

Maps showing this location

23 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Southampton Center Historic District0.9 miles1991
Lockville Historic District1.4 miles2001
Town Farm, The3.3 miles1996
Main Street Historic District3.6 miles1986
US Post Office-Easthampton Main3.6 miles1986
Northampton State Hospital6.4 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 13000170 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hampshire CountyAll 86 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.