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Photograph of Kennedy Park
Photograph by Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger), Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Kennedy Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.

From the record

One of 389 National Register listings published here for Bristol County · listed in 1983 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

21 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Kennedy Park between 2002 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. None 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/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 July 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 June 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 May 2017Debris and open burning1.2 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kennedy Park: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Swansea PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Kidd QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pca Construction CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tiverton PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Bristol County

Maps showing this location

16 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
St. Louis Church0.2 miles1983
Osborn Street School0.3 miles1983
St. Anne's Church and Parish Complex0.3 miles1983
Algonquin Printing Co.0.4 miles1983
Oliver Chase's Thread Mill0.4 miles1983
Massasoit Fire House No. 50.4 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83000686 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.