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Photograph of Hoosac Tunnel
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hoosac Tunnel

Built in 1873. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Berkshire County · listed in 1973 · category: Structure · built in 1873.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Then and now

1886 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 111 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Hoosac Tunnel, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Hoosac Tunnel, surveyed 1886

Fires near this property

26 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Hoosac Tunnel between 2006 and 2020, burning about 37 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 burning12
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
25 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 August 2017Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 July 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 July 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 May 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 May 2015Smoking5.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Hoosac Tunnel: 6 past producers, 5 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 plant. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Pfizer IncCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
Adams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Adams PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Curran Highway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
New England Lime Company QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerSedimentary
North Adams Lime QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerStratabound
North Adams Lime QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerStratabound
Adams Quarry & Plant Pfizer IncStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
New England Lime Company QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
North Adams Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Maps showing this location

21 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
Charles Browne House2.7 miles1985
Normal School Historic District3.1 miles1985
Boardman, The3.3 miles1985
Beaver Mill3.3 miles1973
Church Street-Caddy Hill Historic District (Boundary Increase)3.4 miles1985
Church Street Historic District3.5 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73000294 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Berkshire CountyAll 183 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.