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Photograph of Plymouth Village Historic District
Photograph by Historical Perspective, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Plymouth Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 138 National Register listings published here for Plymouth County · listed in 1982 · category: District.

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

The listing

Then and now

1886 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Plymouth Village Historic District, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Plymouth Village Historic District, surveyed 1886

Fires near this property

310 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 310 fires within 5 miles of Plymouth Village Historic District between 2006 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning206
Missing data/not specified/undetermined59
Misuse of fire by a minor28
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
8 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLYMOUTH
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLYMOUTH
6 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLYMOUTH
5 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLYMOUTH
28 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.2 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlKINGS PLAIN FIRE
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlKINGSTON
26 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Plymouth Village Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Nevada Construction CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Plymouth Pit & Plant Wethers IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

Maps showing this location

20 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
Cole's Hillunder 500 feet1966
Plymouth Post Office Buildingunder 500 feet1986
Plymouth Rock0.1 miles1970
Old County Courthouse0.1 miles1972
First Parish Church of Plymouth0.1 miles2014
Old Burial Hill0.2 miles2013

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82004435 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Plymouth CountyAll 138 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.