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Photograph of Bacon-Morse Historic District
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Bacon-Morse Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 686 National Register listings published here for Worcester County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Bacon--Morse Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. N. Woodstock Rd. at Tipton Rock Rd., Southbridge
  • When was it listed? June 1989
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Southbridge MRA
  • National Register reference number. 89000602 - 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

51 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Bacon-Morse Historic District between 2011 and 2020, burning about 19 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony11
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
8 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 August 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 June 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
19 June 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Bacon-Morse Historic District: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Bog Iron MineIronPast Producer
Ciesla Brothers IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Ciesla PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Landfill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thompson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Thompson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Town of SouthbridgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Worcester County

Maps showing this location

21 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
Smith-Lyon Farmhouse1.3 miles1989
Eugene Tapin House1.8 miles1989
Ashland Mill Tenement2.0 miles1989
Ammidown-Harding Farmhouse2.0 miles1989
John M. Wells House2.4 miles1989
Henry E. Durfee Farmhouse2.4 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89000602 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Worcester CountyAll 686 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.