Rockland Almshouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.

From the record

One of 138 National Register listings published here for Plymouth County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 198 Spring St., Rockland
When was it listed? April 1983
Category. building
National Register reference number. 83000600 - 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

403 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 403 fires within 5 miles of Rockland Almshouse between 2015 and 2020, burning about 148 acres in total. 4 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 burning	207
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	127
Misuse of fire by a minor	23
Smoking	19
Recreation and ceremony	18
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	4
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	ABINGTON
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	ABINGTON
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	ABINGTON
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HANOVER
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HANOVER
7 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HANOVER

Every fire recorded in Plymouth 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 Rockland Almshouse: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Weymouth Quarry	Granite	Producer
F T Read and Sons	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Price Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Studley Pond Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Winter Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

1885 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
1888 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1920 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1977 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:25000 - 3 printings
1977 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Lower Union Street Historic District	0.7 miles	1989
Grand Army of the Republic Hall	0.9 miles	1997
Emerson Shoe Company	0.9 miles	2018
Holy Family Church Complex Historic District	1.3 miles	2025
Island Grove Park National Register District	1.4 miles	2002
Rockland Trust Company	1.5 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83000600 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Plymouth County	All 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.