Becket · Berkshire County
Check an Address in Becket
What Comes Back
The assessment and what it implies in tax, the lot, the year built and the zoning district, then the live checks against the Commonwealth's own maps: flood zone, wetlands, protected land and the state cleanup sites on record nearby. Anything a layer could not answer is listed as unchecked, never as clear.
The Town Around It
Whatever the address, these are Becket's numbers. Each one opens the full record.
Flood, Town-wide
Mapped Flood Zones on the Older Map
This town has no current digital flood map, but the older FEMA paper map was digitised and it does show special flood hazard areas here. Treat it as a warning to check, not as a boundary: the paper map is less precise, carries no base flood elevations, and may be decades old. The town's floodplain administrator and the FEMA Map Service Center hold the answer for a specific address.
1 federal flood-insurance claim has been filed from this town since 2011. Counted by the claim's self-reported city, so this can undercount. History, not a prediction.
Dams in Town
Buckley Dunton Lake Dam · Yokum Brook
High hazard potential, a failure would be likely to cause loss of life downstream. Not a statement about the dam's condition or the chance it fails.
Center Pond Dam · Tributary to West Branch Westfield River
Significant hazard potential, a failure would be likely to cause property damage but not loss of life. Not a statement about the dam's condition or the chance it fails.
Chimney Corners Pond Dam · Hamiliton Brook
Significant hazard potential, a failure would be likely to cause property damage but not loss of life. Not a statement about the dam's condition or the chance it fails.
Crystal Pond Dam · Tributary to Walker Brook
Significant hazard potential, a failure would be likely to cause property damage but not loss of life. Not a statement about the dam's condition or the chance it fails.
FAILED Claflin-Wheeler Reservoir Dam · Rudd Pond Brook
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Greenwater Pond Dam · Greenwater Brook
Significant hazard potential, a failure would be likely to cause property damage but not loss of life. Not a statement about the dam's condition or the chance it fails.
Higley Brook Dam · Higley Brook
Low hazard potential, a failure would be unlikely to cause loss of life or significant property damage.
Indian Lake Dam · Spark Brook
High hazard potential, a failure would be likely to cause loss of life downstream. Not a statement about the dam's condition or the chance it fails.
- …and 13 more on the state inventory.
The Cleanup Registry
Reported releases of oil or hazardous material, from the state's public registry. Being listed means a release was reported, not that it remains: the status letters run from active cleanup to closed. An empty list is a registry fact, not a clean bill of environmental health.
No sites listed for this town.
Water at the Address
No community water system is registered here; addresses are on private wells. No municipal sewer: septic systems, which state law has inspected at the time of sale. Bedrock well yield in town rates "average specific yield".
The Busiest Roads
- MASSACHUSETTS TURNPIKE (I-90)28,272 vehicles/day (2024 count)
- JACOBS LADDER ROAD (US-20)5,519 vehicles/day (2023 count)
- OTIS ROAD2,553 vehicles/day (2014 count)
- NORTH MAIN ROAD (Route-8)2,281 vehicles/day (2024 count)
- WASHINGTON STREET (Route-8)2,175 vehicles/day (2024 count)
The state counts major roads on a rotating schedule; each figure carries its own count year, and a quiet lane's absence from this list is not zero cars.
Zoning & Old Houses
No machine-readable zoning reference is on record for this town; the town clerk has the bylaw. 142 properties in town appear in the state's historic inventory; listed buildings can carry review requirements on exterior work.
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The same lookup for the nearest towns, each at its own rate.
Sources
- FEMA flood layer via MassGIS; FEMA flood-insurance claims. Checked 2026-09-19.
- Office of Dam Safety inventory; federal inventory for federally regulated dams. Checked 2026-09-19.
- MassDEP release and land-use-restriction registries (Chapter 21E). Checked 2026-09-19.
- MassDEP service registries; federal drinking-water system inventory; USGS well mapping. Checked 2026-09-19.
- MassDOT traffic count programme. Figures through the 2024 count.
- Town zoning references; Massachusetts historic inventory. Checked 2026-09-19.
"Figures through" is the period the publisher's data describes; "checked" is only when we last asked. The full sourcing: sources and method.