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Photograph of Pettibone Farm
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Pettibone Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 21 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 1991 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Old Cheshire Rd. N of jct. with Nobodys Rd., Lanesborough
  • When was it listed? January 1991
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 90001944 - 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 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Pettibone Farm, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet covering Pettibone Farm, surveyed 1886

Fires near this property

44 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Pettibone Farm between 2008 and 2020, burning about 158 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 burning28
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
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 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
20 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
14 June 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 June 2017Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 June 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 May 2015Debris and open burning1.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 May 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Pettibone Farm: 14 past producers, 6 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Limestone, General, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
United States Gypsum Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
United States Gypsum Company Marble QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerStratabound
Bennett ProspectIronOccurrenceLimonite
Bennett ProspectIronPast ProducerResidual
Bennett ProspectIronProspect
Bliss MineIronProducer1782
Bliss MineIronPast Producer
Bliss Mine/Jagger MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Colby MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Colby MineIronProducer1856

Every working recorded in Berkshire 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
Farnams Village Historic District0.7 miles2000
Hall's Tavern2.7 miles1983
Cheshire Town Hall Complex2.7 miles2017
Fitch-Hoose House3.8 miles2010
Fairview Cemetery4.2 miles2000
Main Street Cemetery4.3 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90001944 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.