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

Hadley Center Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 23 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.

From the record

One of 86 National Register listings published here for Hampshire 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. Middle and Russell Sts., Hadley
  • When was it listed? December 1977
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 77000185 - 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

79 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Hadley Center Historic District between 2001 and 2020, burning about 301 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use16
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony10
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural2

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 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
18 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSylvio O. Conte National Wildlife RefugeMILL RV DIV MA-SCR #4
18 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSylvio O. Conte National Wildlife RefugeMILL RV DIV MA-SCR #3
17 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSylvio O. Conte National Wildlife RefugeMILL RV DIV MA-SCR #2
15 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSylvio O. Conte National Wildlife RefugeMILL RV DIV MA-SCR #1
15 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Hadley Center Historic District: 9 producers, 8 past producers, 1 unknown. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Brick Clay, Clay, Stone, Dimension, Barium-Barite. 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
Granite Rock QuarryGranitePast Producer
Hatfield Lead MineBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast ProducerVein
Hatfield Lead MineBarium-Barite, Zinc, LeadProducerBarite, Galena, Sphalerite
Hatfield Lead MineBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Amherst Plant No. 5Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Amherst Quarry Plant#5Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Granite Rock QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Sandstone QuarryStone, DimensionProducerSandstone
Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

Maps showing this location

23 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
Hadley Center Historic District (Boundary Increase)under 500 feet1994
Hatfield Center Historic District1.7 miles1994
Elm Street Historic District1.9 miles2000
Forty Acres and Its Skirts Historic District2.0 miles2023
Porter-Phelps-Huntington House2.0 miles1973
Old Mill Site Historic District2.1 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 77000185 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hampshire CountyAll 86 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.