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Bullard Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 1,353 National Register listings published here for Middlesex County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. 7 Bullard Ln., Holliston
  • When was it listed? May 1995
  • Category. building
  • Architectural style. Georgian architecture
  • National Register reference number. 95000710 - 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

82 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Bullard Farm between 2016 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural3
Fireworks1

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 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
26 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
11 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMEDWAY
10 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMEDWAY
10 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMEDWAY
1 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlASHLAND
1 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSHERBORN

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Bullard Farm: 18 past producers, 4 producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Holliston PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Needham PitStonePast Producer
Simeone Stone CorpGranitePast ProducerGranite
Bird PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Finn Brothers Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Garbarino Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Holliston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Holliston PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Holliston Sand CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Irving Trucking CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Middlesex County

Maps showing this location

20 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
Deacon William Leland House0.9 miles1986
H. G. Vaughn House1.2 miles1986
Addington Gardner House1.5 miles1990
Woodland Farm-Leland House1.8 miles1986
Morse-Tay-Leland-Hawes House2.0 miles1986
East Holliston Historic District2.1 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95000710 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Middlesex CountyAll 1353 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.