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Photograph of M.M. Rhodes and Sons Company
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Rhodes, M.M. and Sons Co.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 18 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 2016 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. 12 Porter St., Taunton
  • When was it listed? August 2016
  • Category. building
  • National Register reference number. 16000570 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

62 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Rhodes, M.M. and Sons Co. between 2003 and 2020, burning about 46 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking7
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
16 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 August 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
10 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
10 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Rhodes, M.M. and Sons Co.: 4 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. 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
Taunton PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
King Trucking PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Landfill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mc Cabe Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mccabe Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Mccabe Sand and Gravel Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Raynham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Raynham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bristol 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
Samuel Colby Houseunder 500 feet1984
Samuel Washburn House0.1 miles1984
Winslow Congregational Church0.1 miles1984
Lord-Baylies-Bennett House0.1 miles1984
McKinstrey House0.1 miles1984
Henry G. Brownell House0.1 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 16000570 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.