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Warelands

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 342 National Register listings published here for Norfolk County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. N of Norfolk at 103 Boardman St., Norfolk
  • When was it listed? November 1977
  • Category. building
  • National Register reference number. 77000190 - 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

128 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Warelands between 2007 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Recreation and ceremony46
Debris and open burning16
Smoking11
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMEDFIELD
23 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSHARON
22 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
18 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
14 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWRENTHAM
12 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWALPOLE

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Warelands: 11 past producers, 8 producers, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Granite, Iron. 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
Bates Bros QuarryGraniteProducer
Iron Mountain MineIronPast Producer
Needham PitStonePast Producer
Walpole QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Chestnut Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dedham Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dedham Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
J Colella and Son IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Medway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Millis Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Norfolk 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
Sullivan's Corner Historic District0.7 miles2012
Rockwood Road Historic District0.8 miles2017
Norfolk Grange Hall1.0 miles1989
Stephen Turner House1.1 miles1979
Ellice School2.3 miles2010
Wrentham State School2.8 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 77000190 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Norfolk CountyAll 342 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.