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Photograph of Jewish Cemetery of New Bedford
Photograph by Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Jewish Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.

From the record

One of 389 National Register listings published here for Bristol County · listed in 2014 · category: Site.

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

The listing

  • Address. Old Plainville Rd., New Bedford
  • When was it listed? April 2014
  • Category. site
  • National Register reference number. 14000155 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1885 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Jewish Cemetery, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Jewish Cemetery, surveyed 1885

Fires near this property

46 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Jewish Cemetery between 2015 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
21 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 August 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
11 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Jewish Cemetery: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Acushnet QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Blue Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dartmouth PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pine Hill Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Bristol County

Maps showing this location

19 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
Shawmut Diner1.9 miles2003
Head of the River Historic District2.5 miles2009
Whitman Mills2.7 miles2003
Hotel Waverly2.7 miles1990
Manomet Mills2.7 miles2012
Whitman Mills2.8 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14000155 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bristol CountyAll 389 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.