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Photograph of Moore's Corner Historic District
Photograph by John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Moore's Corner Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 18 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Moore's Corner Historic District between 2002 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 1 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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
18 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 June 2020Natural56 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlJOSHUA HILL FIRE
2 April 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
17 April 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 April 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Moore's Corner Historic District: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Copper, Barium-Barite, Silver, Zinc, Barium-Barite. 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
Leverett Barite ProspectBarium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, CopperOccurrenceReplacement Vein
Leverett Lead MinesLead, Copper, Barium-Barite, Silver, ZincPast ProducerBarite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Leverett Lead MinesCopper, Lead, Zinc, SilverPast Producer
Leverett ProspectsBarium-Barite, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Leverett Lead MineLead, CopperPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Franklin 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.

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
North Leverett Historic District1.5 miles2014
North Cemetery2.3 miles2020
Leverett Center Historic District2.7 miles2008
East Leverett Historic District3.7 miles2014
Long Plain Cemetery4.0 miles2020
Montague Center Historic District4.2 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14000215 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin CountyAll 60 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.