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Mount Greylock Summit Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Berkshire County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Jct. of Notch, Rockwell, and Summit Rds., Adams
  • When was it listed? April 1998
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 98000349 - 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.

Then and now

1886 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 111 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Mount Greylock Summit Historic District, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Mount Greylock Summit Historic District, surveyed 1886

Fires near this property

29 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Mount Greylock Summit Historic District between 2015 and 2018, burning about 15 acres in total. 3 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 burning13
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 August 2017Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 August 2017Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 July 2018Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 May 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 May 2015Debris and open burning2.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Mount Greylock Summit Historic District: 7 past producers, 5 producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Pfizer IncCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
New England Lime Company QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerSedimentary
North Adams Lime QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerStratabound
Adams Quarry & Plant Pfizer IncStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bliss MineIronProducer1782
Bliss MineIronPast Producer
Bliss Mine/Jagger MineIronPast ProducerResidual
New England Lime Company QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
North Adams Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Adams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Maps showing this location

21 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
Quaker Meetinghouse2.3 miles1976
Maple Street Cemetery2.3 miles2004
P. J. Barrett Block2.6 miles1982
Simmons Block2.6 miles1982
Jones Block2.6 miles1982
Park Street Firehouse2.6 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000349 in Record Group 79.
Berkshire CountyAll 183 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.