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Photograph of Five Corners Historic District
Photograph by John Phelan, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Five Corners Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 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 1993 · category: District.

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

The listing

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 Five Corners Historic District, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Five Corners Historic District, surveyed 1886

Fires near this property

18 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Five Corners Historic District between 2005 and 2018, burning about 16 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2017Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 May 2015Debris and open burning2.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
10 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92001717 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.