H.H. Richardson Historic District of North Easton

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 18 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 1987 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Main St., Elm St., & railway right-of-way off Oliver St., North Easton
When was it listed? December 1987
Category. district
National Register reference number. 87002598 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

319 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 319 fires within 5 miles of H.H. Richardson Historic District of North Easton between 2002 and 2020, burning about 117 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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 burning	143
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	94
Recreation and ceremony	37
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Smoking	13
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
7 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	STOUGHTON
6 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
6 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	SHARON

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of H.H. Richardson Historic District of North Easton: 9 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Easton Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
A A Will Materials Cord	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
A Edward Sarni	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Boston Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Brockton Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Brockton Sand & Gravel Company Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Easton Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gerald Kelleher Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Klondyke Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sharon Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant

Every working recorded in Bristol 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.

1886 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1919 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1963 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:25000
1975 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:25000
1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
North Easton Historic District	under 500 feet	1972
North Easton Railroad Station	0.2 miles	1972
Furnace Village Historic District	3.6 miles	1983
Bay Road	4.3 miles	1972
Lowney Chocolate Factory	6.2 miles	2016
Old Bay Road	6.3 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002598 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bristol County	All 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.