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Photograph of Belchertown State School
Photograph by Jaklun, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Belchertown State School

Built in 1922. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 86 National Register listings published here for Hampshire County · listed in 1994 · category: District · built in 1922.

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

The listing

  • Address. 30 State St., Belchertown
  • When was it listed? July 1994
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Massachusetts State Hospitals And State Schools MPS
  • When was it built? 1922
  • National Register reference number. 94000688 - 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

32 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Belchertown State School between 2015 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
24 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 July 2018Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use5.3 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 June 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 May 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Belchertown State School: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Belchertown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Belchertown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

Maps showing this location

17 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
Walker-Collis House0.7 miles1982
Belchertown Center Historic District1.2 miles1982
South Amherst Common Historic District6.1 miles1995
Baird House7.1 miles1985
Ware Center Historic District7.5 miles1986
Woodbridge Street Historic District7.7 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94000688 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hampshire CountyAll 86 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.