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Photograph of South Egremont Village Historic District
Photograph by John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

South Egremont Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 23 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.

From the record

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Berkshire County · listed in 1984 · 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

1885 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering South Egremont Village Historic District, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering South Egremont Village Historic District, surveyed 1885

Fires near this property

33 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of South Egremont Village Historic District between 2000 and 2019, burning about 36 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
13 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 August 2016Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
20 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Maps showing this location

23 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
Westover-Bacon-Potts Farm0.8 miles1990
William E.B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite1.5 miles1976
Wheeler Family Farmstead2.8 miles2011
Taconic and West Avenues Historic District3.1 miles1998
Dwight-Henderson House3.2 miles1976
Searles Castle3.3 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84002086 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Berkshire CountyAll 183 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.