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Photograph of Taconic and West Avenues Historic District
Photograph by John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Taconic and West Avenues Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 22 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.

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 Wikipedia article

The listing

Then and now

1885 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Taconic and West Avenues Historic District, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Taconic and West Avenues Historic District, surveyed 1885

Fires near this property

28 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Taconic and West Avenues Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 2 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 burning19
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
13 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 August 2016Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 August 2017Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
18 July 2019Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 May 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Maps showing this location

22 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
Dwight-Henderson House0.2 miles1976
Mahaiwe Block0.3 miles2008
Mahaiwe Theater0.3 miles2008
Searles Castle0.4 miles1982
Clinton African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church0.5 miles2008
Society of the Congregational Church of Great Barrington0.5 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000680 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.