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One of 342 National Register listings published here for Norfolk County · listed in 2016 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Eustis Estate Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.
The listing
- Address. 1400, 1421, 1424, 1426, and 1452 Canton Ave., Milton
- When was it listed? March 2016
- Category. district
- Architect. William Ralph Emerson
- National Register reference number. 16000099 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
184 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Eustis Estate Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 121 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 | 104 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 41 |
| Smoking | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| 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.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BRAINTREE |
| 7 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BRAINTREE |
| 5 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | WESTWOOD |
| 3 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | DEDHAM |
| 29 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BRAINTREE |
| 28 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BRAINTREE |
| 23 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 20 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BRAINTREE |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Eustis Estate Historic District: 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Colony Crushed Stone | Granite | Past Producer | Granite | |
| Canton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Canton Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Old Colony Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| West Roxbury Crushed Stone Operatio | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown |
Maps showing this location
19 surveysUnited 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.
- 1886 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
- 1919 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:24000
- 1941 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:31680 - 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
- 1946 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:25000
- 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
- 1958 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:25000
- 1971 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:25000
- 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Suffolk Resolves House | 0.4 miles | 1973 |
 | Blue Hills Reservation Parkways-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston | 0.5 miles | 2003 |
 | Davenport Estate Historic District | 0.9 miles | 2018 |
 | Comfort Station | 1.0 miles | 1980 |
 | Paul's Bridge | 1.0 miles | 1972 |
 | Blue Hills Headquarters | 1.1 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000099 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Norfolk County | All 342 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.