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Still River Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.

From the record

one of 500 National Register listings in Worcester County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Worcester County.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 213 Still River Rd., Harvard, 01451
  • When was it listed? 1996-12-13
  • Category. building
  • Township. Harvard town
  • National Register reference number. 96001479 - 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

81 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Still River Baptist Church between 2002 and 2020, burning about 2,688 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Recreation and ceremony12
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
20 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 September 2017Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 August 2017Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
18 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
18 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
14 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlDEVENS

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 2,183 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,183 specimens collected within 10 miles of Still River Baptist Church between 1859 and 1974: 1,269 Animalia, 541 Plantae, 353 Fungi, 11 Unrecorded, 8 Chromista, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. C. Gibson, A. Ferrett and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Exidia glandulosa (Bull.) Fr.Exidia glandulosa (Bull.) Fr.1896F. O. GroverProspect Hill
Specimen of Chrysosplenium americanum Schwein. ex Hook.Chrysosplenium americanum Schwein. ex Hook.1899E. F. Williams
A photograph of the species Condylura cristata, not of this specimenCondylura cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1859E S WheelerBERLIN
A photograph of the species Dryobates pubescens, not of this specimenDryobates pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)1861not recordedBolton
A photograph of the species Clemmys insculpta, not of this specimenClemmys insculpta Fitzinger, 18351864Agassiz
A photograph of the species Bromus sterilis, not of this specimenBromus sterilis L.1879C. E. Faxon
A photograph of the species Megascops asio, not of this specimenMegascops asio asio (Linnaeus, 1758)1879Smith, J. C.; Thomas Wilmer Dewing collectionGroton
A photograph of the species Strix varia, not of this specimenStrix varia varia Barton, 17991880Smith, J. C.; Thomas Wilmer Dewing collectionGroton
unnamed1881Sargent, F. L.Groton, Mass. [Massachusetts]
A photograph of the species Conocephalum conicum, not of this specimenConocephalum conicum (L.) Underw.1881Charles W. Swan
A photograph of the species Hypericum gentianoides, not of this specimenHypericum gentianoides (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1881Fredrick L SargentLunenburg
Arthuriomyces peckianus (Howe) Cummins & Y.Hirats.1892W. B. Hosmer

All 2,183 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Still River Baptist Church: 7 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Keating Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bolton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hazen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Joy Contracting TcSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Kanis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lancaster PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Landfill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Shirley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spratts PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stow Sand and Gravel IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Worcester County

Storms near this property

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harvard, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2010Thunderstorm WindHarvard$20,000Multiple trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHarvard$15,000Trees on Scott Street were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2016LightningHarvard$10,000A barn on Still River Depot Road was struck by lightning, causing a small fire on the 2nd floor.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindHarvard$5,000Two trees were downed by thunderstorm winds, one of them was blocking one side of Route 111.
May 2014HailHarvard$5,000Golfball size hail damaged a Massachusetts Environmental Police cruiser as they traveled between Interstate 495 and Route 2 through the center of Harvard.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindHarvard$2,000In Harvard, multiple trees were down on Houghton Lane.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHarvard$2,000At 5:35 PM EST a large tree and wires were reported down on Warren Avenue in Harvard.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHarvard-Trees and power lines down near Bull Park.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindHarvard-Trees and power poles downed.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindHarvard-Trees down on Warren Road.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindHarvard-Trees were reported uprooted and wires knocked down. About 1500 electrical customers lost power.
July 1999HailHarvard-no account filed
July 1996HailHarvard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Worcester County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

From the nomination file

8,189 words on record

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

Statement of significance

Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing.) x A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. _B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. x C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. _ D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.

Criteria Considerations (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) Property is: x A owned by religious institution or used for religious purposes. _B removed from its original location. _C a birthplace or grave. Harvard (Worcester County), Massachusetts County and State Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) Architecture Religion Social History Period of Significance 1832-1946 Significant Dates 1832, 1867, 1870, 1902 Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) N/A Cultural Affiliation N/A _D a cemetery. _E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. _F a commemorative property. _G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years.

Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) Architect/Builder 9.

The whole case file for this property - 8,189 words, 21 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 96001479, 21 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

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
Fruitlands1.3 miles1974
Lane, Anthony, House3.1 miles1976
Ponakin Bridge3.5 miles1979
Old Settlers' Burying Ground4.1 miles2019
Middle Cemetery4.2 miles2019
Atherton Bridge4.3 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96001479 in Record Group 79.
Worcester CountyAll 500 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.
  • Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
  • 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.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.