Assonet Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.

From the record

One of 389 National Register listings published here for Bristol County · listed in 1999 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by MA 24, a private Ln., Conrail RR Tracks, and High St., Freetown
When was it listed? September 1999
Category. district
National Register reference number. 99001116 - 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

45 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Assonet Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Debris and open burning	17
Fireworks	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 August 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
31 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 July 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
20 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
18 July 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Assonet Historic District: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Assonet Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
East Freetown Pit & Assonet Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Freetown Development Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lanzisera Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Randy Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Bristol County

Maps showing this location

19 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.

1885 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
1888 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1918 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Assonet quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Providence quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1948 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1951 USGS Assonet quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Assonet quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Assonet quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Assonet quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1977 USGS Assonet quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:50000
1984 USGS Providence quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Dighton Rock	2.6 miles	1980
Coram Shipyard Historic District	2.9 miles	1998
Dighton Wharves Historic District	2.9 miles	1997
Somerset Village Historic District	3.5 miles	2020
Luther Winslow Jr. House	3.6 miles	1983
Valentine-French House	3.7 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001116 in Record Group 79.
Bristol County	All 389 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.