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Photograph of Foxborough State Hospital
Photograph by Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger), Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Foxborough State Hospital

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 Chestnut and Main Sts., Foxborough
  • When was it listed? July 1994
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Massachusetts State Hospitals And State Schools MPS
  • National Register reference number. 94000695 - 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

138 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Foxborough State Hospital between 2015 and 2020, burning about 57 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
Recreation and ceremony48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Smoking25
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlFOXBORO
26 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSHARON
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
20 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSHARON
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

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Foxborough State Hospital: 8 past producers, 6 producers, 2 unknowns. 6 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
Chestnut Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dedham Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dedham Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Farnham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
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
Amos Morse House0.4 miles1986
Foxboro Grange Hall1.0 miles1983
Foxborough Pumping Station1.1 miles2005
Memorial Hall1.1 miles1983
Ezra Carpenter House1.9 miles1985
Pondville Cemetery1.9 miles2014

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94000695 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.