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Photograph of Hamilton Historic District
Photograph by John Phelan, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hamilton Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.

From the record

One of 480 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 1973 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 540-700 and 563-641 Bay Rd., Hamilton
  • When was it listed? April 1973
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 73000300 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

56 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Hamilton Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning21
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1
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
7 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBEVERLY
4 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBEVERLY
8 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBEVERLY
28 August 2016Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlIPSWICH
27 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBEVERLY
25 August 2017Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 August 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlIPSWICH

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hamilton Historic District: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Atwater PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Manchester Sand and Stone Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Goodhue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
R W DrinkwaterSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
R W Drinkwater IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Topseal PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Maps showing this location

16 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
Brown House0.4 miles1990
Woodberry-Quarrels House0.6 miles1990
Community House1.1 miles2011
Austin Brown House1.3 miles1990
Emeline Patch House1.6 miles1990
Asbury Grove Historic District1.8 miles2009

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73000300 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Essex CountyAll 480 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.