Built in 1804 in the Federal architecture. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1986. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The Amos Morse House was a historic house at 77 North Street in Foxborough, Massachusetts. It was a two-story wood-frame house, five bays wide, with a hip roof and twin interior chimneys.”
Wikipedia article Amos Morse House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 249 National Register listings in Norfolk County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1804, Federal architecture · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Norfolk County.
National Register reference number.86000027- 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
144 since 2007
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Morse, Amos, House between
2007 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony
50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
48
Smoking
26
Debris and open burning
10
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Arson/incendiarism
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Natural
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 2,302 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Morse, Amos, House between 1870 and
1975: 1,027 Fungi, 729 Plantae, 407 Animalia, 102 Protozoa, 17 Chromista, 15 Unrecorded, 5 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
15 workings within 5 miles of Morse, Amos, House: 9 past producers, 5 producers, 1 unknown.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Iron, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Foxboro, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Tornado confirmed to have touched down in a small neighborhood in|Foxboro near the Mansfield town line very close to the town of Easton. |Several locations on a west to east path in the neighborhood had several|large trees up to 2 feet in diameter snapped at the trunk.|Observed tree damage had a convergent pattern consistent with|violently rotating winds. No major damage to homes was observed,|but one chimney appeared to have been knocked over by a fallen|tree. Path width was estimated to be around 25 yards. Path length|of the surveyed damage points was just shy of 300 yards. Per|radar data, a velocity couplet was over the surveyed neighborhood|for only a minute or two before continuing east over conservation|land. It is possible that the tornado was on the ground for|longer, but surveyors were unable to access conservation land|east of the last surveyed damage point. Additional significant |tree damage was found east of aforementioned conservation land in Easton, |but patterns were more consistent with west to east straight line winds. |This is also consistent with archived KBOX radar which displayed strong|outbound (west to east) velocities over this area.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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