Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1992. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The Lucius Clapp Memorial is a historic library building in Stoughton, Massachusetts. The single story masonry Renaissance Revival structure was built in 1903.”
Wikipedia article Lucius Clapp Memorial, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 249 National Register listings in Norfolk County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Norfolk County.
National Register reference number.92000998- 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
270 since 2015
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 270 fires within 5 miles of Clapp, Lucius, Memorial between
2015 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning
83
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
79
Recreation and ceremony
59
Smoking
32
Misuse of fire by a minor
14
Arson/incendiarism
1
Other causes
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 5,813 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Clapp, Lucius, Memorial between 1832 and
1975: 2,570 Plantae, 1,606 Animalia, 1,469 Fungi, 132 Protozoa, 19 Chromista, 13 Unrecorded, 4 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), ?, A W Cheever and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
16 workings within 5 miles of Clapp, Lucius, Memorial: 10 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Stoughton, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 4 lightning, 3 flash flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Lightning struck the roof of a condo at Knollsbrook Condominiums. The resultant fire spread to two other units. Three firefighters were treated for heat exhaustion and dehydration while fighting the fire. One was transported to the hospital. These injuries were indirectly related to the lightning strike.
A car was trapped in floodwaters on Independence Avenue in Quincy. In Weymouth, Fogg Street was flooded with several inches of water at the entrance to the South Shore Emergency Room entrance. Columbian Street at Nevin Road was flooded with four feet of water. Bodwell Drive in Avon was flooded with several cars stuck in flood waters. Several feet of water on Route 37 in Braintree near the Mutual gas station closed the road. A car was stuck in flood waters at the intersection of Union Street and Grossman Drive. In Stoughton, three to four inches of water flooded the travel lanes on Route 27.
A tornado touched down at a car dealership on Route 138 in Stoughton where it was captured by a security camera and recorded on several employees cell phone cameras. Three RV trailers, weighing about 5000 pounds each, were pushed back about 6 feet against a chain link fence. One trailer was lifted about 15 feet into a light pole but landed on its wheels with minimal damage. An aluminum door about 20 feet high and 15 feet wide was blown out of the service garage. Eyewitnesses reported ceiling tiles being lifted inside the dealership as the tornado passed overhead. The tornado entered a wooded area just to the northeast of the dealership. Roughly one quarter of a mile away on Erica Drive and Dean Road, two large pine trees were downed before the tornado dissipated.
A tornado briefly touched down in Stoughton on Eighth Street and|Corbett Street. Sporadic damage along a short path included fallen|trees, one of which fell onto a shed. Part of a fence was blown|in.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
From the nomination file
6,248 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is reproduced in full on its own page, word for word and never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 92000998, 27 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
Block
