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Photograph of Norton Center Historic District
Photograph by Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger), Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Norton Center Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 19 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 1977 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. MA 123, Norton
  • When was it listed? December 1977
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 77000170 - 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

39 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Norton Center Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning10
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
16 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
12 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLAINVILLE
9 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
11 August 2020Debris and open burningunder 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Norton Center Historic District: 4 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
Taunton PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Allen R. Nelson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gary Nelson Excavating CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Pine Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bristol County

Maps showing this location

19 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
Pitt Clarke House0.5 miles1976
Old Bay Road3.2 miles1974
Fisher-Richardson House3.7 miles1998
Hodges House3.8 miles1984
Joseph Willis House4.1 miles1984
Spring Brook Cemetery4.1 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 77000170 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.