North Leverett Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 19 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

Address. North Leverett, Chestnut Hill, Cave Hill, Jackson Hill, Hemenway & Dickinson Rds., Leverett
When was it listed? June 2014
Category. district
National Register reference number. 14000326 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

26 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of North Leverett Historic District between 2002 and 2020, burning about 72 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 burning	12
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
19 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
17 August 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
25 June 2020	Natural	56 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	JOSHUA HILL FIRE
30 April 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 April 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
2 April 2006	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 April 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not 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 North Leverett 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Leverett Barite Prospect	Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, Copper	Occurrence	Replacement Vein
Leverett Lead Mines	Lead, Copper, Barium-Barite, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer	Barite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Leverett Lead Mines	Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer
Leverett Prospects	Barium-Barite, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Leverett Lead Mine	Lead, Copper	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Franklin 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.

1887 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
1889 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1935 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1936 USGS Millers Falls quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS Millers Falls quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1942 USGS Keene quadrangle1:125000
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Millers Falls quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Millers Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Millers Falls quadrangle1:25000
1977 USGS Millers Falls quadrangle1:25000
1977 USGS Millers Falls quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
1990 USGS Orange 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
Moore's Corner Historic District	1.5 miles	2014
North Cemetery	2.5 miles	2020
Montague Center Historic District	2.8 miles	2001
Leverett Center Historic District	2.8 miles	2008
Alvah Stone Mill	3.1 miles	1997
Long Plain Cemetery	3.9 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000326 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin County	All 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.