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Photograph of Huntington Village Historic District
Photograph by John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Huntington Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 22 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 86 National Register listings published here for Hampshire County · listed in 1999 · 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

1887 to 1998

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 Huntington Village Historic District, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet covering Huntington Village Historic District, surveyed 1887

Fires near this property

8 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Huntington Village Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
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
11 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 June 2017Smoking1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 April 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 April 2020Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 March 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
16 March 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
19 October 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Huntington Village Historic District: 8 producers, 8 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Mica, Feldspar, Talc-Soapstone. 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
Kaolin QuarryBrick ClayProducer
Kaolin QuarryClayPast Producer
Pegmatite QuarryMica, FeldsparProducerFeldspar
Blandford Mica MineMica, FeldsparPast ProducerFeldspar, Mica
Donovan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Donovan Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pegmatite QuarryMica, FeldsparPast Producer
Soapstone QuarryTalc-SoapstoneProducerMetamorphic
Soapstone QuarryTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Blandford Mica MineMicaProducerMica

Every working recorded in Hampshire 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

4 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
North Chester Historic District6.9 miles1996
South Worthington Historic District7.6 miles2005
Southampton Center Historic District7.8 miles1991
Lockville Historic District7.9 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001080 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hampshire CountyAll 86 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.