Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2015. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“All Souls Church, also known as All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church of Braintree, is a church on the National Register of Historic Places, it is located at 196 Elm Street in Braintree, Massachusetts. The building is a large fieldstone structure, in a cruciform plan with a square tower that has a crenellated top.”
Wikipedia article All Souls Church (Braintree, Massachusetts), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 249 National Register listings in Norfolk County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Norfolk County.
National Register reference number. 15000389 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
346 since 2015
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 346 fires within 5 miles of All Souls Church between
2015 and 2020, burning about 190 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
Recreation and ceremony
219
Smoking
56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
32
Debris and open burning
30
Fireworks
3
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 9,477 specimens
collected within 10 miles of All Souls Church between 1815 and
1975: 4,928 Plantae, 2,428 Animalia, 1,686 Fungi, 272 Chromista, 106 Protozoa, 42 Unrecorded, 15 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), A C Gibson, A Phelps Wyman and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
18 workings within 5 miles of All Souls Church: 10 producers, 8 past producers.
10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Braintree, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 3 lightning, 3 hail.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
A house on Central Avenue caught fire after being struck by lightning. The fire spread quickly turning into a three alarm fire and causing substantial damage to the house. No one was home at the time of the fire.
A trained spotter reported a wind gust to 62 mph. Numerous trees and wires across Braintree and Holbrook were downed by thunderstorm winds. One of these trees landed on a car on Roseway Street in Holbrook.
Heavy rain resulted in street flooding in several communities across Norfolk County. In Walpole, 50 to 75 feet of Pleasant Street was closed because of water four feet deep in the street. In Norwood, a vehicle was stuck in flood waters with the road impassable. And in Braintree, Union Street was flooded from poor drainage overflow where it crosses under the MBTA railroad bridge.
In Braintree at 605 PM EDT, a resident reported a 64 mph wind gust on their home anemometer. Damage in the immediate area was mostly downed tree limbs.
Route 37 was flooded near 275 Hancock Street. Traffic was diverted down Washington Street to Jefferson Street. Common Street from Granite to Washington was closed due to flooding.
Three to five inches of rain fell across the south Boston metro area. Grossman Drive and the underpass for the MBTA train tracks were flooded in Braintree. Also, Forbes Road near the bus terminal was flooded. In Holbrook, several roads flooded including South Franklin Street, Clara and Loud Roads, and Abington Avenue between Weymouth Street and White Road.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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