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Photograph of Furnace Village Historic District
Photograph by John Phelan, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Furnace Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

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

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

The listing

  • Address. MA 106/123, Easton
  • When was it listed? October 1983
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 83003938 - 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

69 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Furnace Village Historic District between 2002 and 2020, burning about 41 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
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Recreation and ceremony6
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSTOUGHTON
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBROCKTON
18 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWEST BRIDGEWATER
17 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBROCKTON
5 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlFOXBORO

Every fire recorded in Bristol 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 Furnace Village Historic District: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Easton PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brockton Sand & Gravel Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Easton Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Pine Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bristol County

Maps showing this location

17 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
Bay Road1.1 miles1972
Old Bay Road3.0 miles1974
North Easton Railroad Station3.5 miles1972
North Easton Historic District3.6 miles1972
H.H. Richardson Historic District of North Easton3.6 miles1987
Lowney Chocolate Factory4.3 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83003938 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.