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Wrentham State School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 342 National Register listings published here for Norfolk County · listed in 1994 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Jct. of Emerald and North Sts., Wrentham
  • When was it listed? January 1994
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Massachusetts State Hospitals And State Schools MPS
  • National Register reference number. 93001490 - 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

160 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Wrentham State School between 2007 and 2020, burning about 70 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/undetermined57
Recreation and ceremony53
Smoking24
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMEDFIELD
23 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSHARON
22 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLAINVILLE
15 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 September 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlFOXBORO
14 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWRENTHAM
13 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlFRANKLIN

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Wrentham State School: 9 producers, 6 past producers, 2 unknowns. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, 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
Bates Bros QuarryGraniteProducer
Iron Mountain MineIronPast Producer
Walpole QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wrentham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Wrentham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wrentham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Chestnut Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dedham Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dedham Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
J Colella and Son IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Maps showing this location

19 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
Pondville Cemetery0.9 miles2014
Roebuck Tavern1.8 miles1984
Original Congregational Church of Wrentham1.8 miles2014
Plimpton-Winter House2.0 miles1985
Sullivan's Corner Historic District2.2 miles2012
Rockwood Road Historic District2.3 miles2017

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93001490 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Norfolk CountyAll 342 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.