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Photograph of Church Street Historic District
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Church Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 18 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 86 National Register listings published here for Hampshire County · listed in 1986 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Church St. between Park Ave. and Highland St., Ware
  • When was it listed? May 1986
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 86001246 - 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

38 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Church Street Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. 6 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural6
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
10 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 June 2015Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 June 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 May 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 May 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 May 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Church Street Historic District: 4 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
A Giard and SonsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
B and C Gravel CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bond Washed Sand and StoneSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cemetery Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ware PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ware Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

Maps showing this location

18 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

5 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
Ware Millyard Historic District0.6 miles1986
Otis Company Mill No. 10.7 miles1982
Ware Town Hall0.7 miles1986
Ware Center Historic District2.4 miles1986
Ware-Hardwick Covered Bridge3.2 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86001246 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hampshire CountyAll 86 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.