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Photograph of North Becket Village Historic District
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

North Becket Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 22 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Berkshire County · listed in 1988 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Main, High, and Pleasant Sts., Becket
  • When was it listed? July 1988
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 88000229 - 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.

Then and now

1886 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 111 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering North Becket Village Historic District, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering North Becket Village Historic District, surveyed 1886

Fires near this property

9 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of North Becket Village Historic District between 2015 and 2018, burning about 32 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1
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
29 July 2017Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 June 2018Smoking2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 May 2015Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
20 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
31 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 March 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
12 March 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of North Becket Village Historic District: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Emery, Iron, Chromium. 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
Chrome-Magnetite MineEmeryOccurrenceEmery
Chrome-Magnetite MineIron, ChromiumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Maps showing this location

22 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
Clark-Eames House0.8 miles1986
Lower Historic District1.8 miles1986
South Center School House2.5 miles1986
Saint Andrew's Chapel3.1 miles1986
Becket Center Historic District3.4 miles1982
Sibley-Corcoran House3.4 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88000229 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.
  • 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.