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Photograph of Blackinton Houses and Park
Photograph by John Phelan, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Blackinton Houses and Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 18 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 389 National Register listings published here for Bristol County · listed in 1979 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. N. Main St., Attleboro
  • When was it listed? April 1979
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 79000326 - 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

37 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Blackinton Houses and Park between 2015 and 2020, burning about 46 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/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony11
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
27 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLAINVILLE
27 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLAINVILLE
26 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLAINVILLE
23 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLAINVILLE
21 September 2017Missing 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 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Bristol 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 Blackinton Houses and Park: 13 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, PGE, Silver. 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
Glines & Rhodes Refin.--PlainvilleGold, PGE, SilverPast Producer
Adamsdale MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Allen R. Nelson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Boro Sand and Stone IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Boro Sand and Stone, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Courtois Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Del Soullier PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Del Soullier and SonsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Dorrance IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gary Nelson Excavating CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Bristol County

Maps showing this location

18 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
Watson, Newell & Company Factory0.4 miles2020
East Attleborough Academy0.4 miles1985
Capron House0.4 miles1978
First Parsonage for Second East Parish Church0.6 miles1980
Northbound and Southbound Stations0.7 miles1989
US Post Office-Attleboro Main0.7 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000326 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.