Blandford · Hampden County
Check an Address in Blandford
The Town Around It
Whatever the address, these are Blandford's numbers. Each one opens the full record.
Flood, Town-wide
Mapped Flood Zones Present
Parts of this town are inside mapped special flood hazard areas, where flood insurance is required for most mortgages and building is regulated. Whether a specific property is inside one is a parcel-level question, check the address, not the town.
No federal flood-insurance claims appear under this town's name, which speaks to filed claims only, and unmapped towns rarely carry policies to claim against.
Dams in Town
Black Brook PL-566 Flood Control Dam · Black 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.
Borden Brook Reservoir Dam · Borden 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.
Breached - Dunlap Pond Dam · Potash Brook
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Breached - Unnamed Dam · Tributary to Potash Brook
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Chester-Blandford State Forest Dam · Tributary to Sanderson Brook
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Huntington Water Works · Cold Brook
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Long Pond Dam · Wheeler 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.
Peck Lumber Dam · Tributary to Wheeler Brook
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
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.
1 of the town's closed cleanups carry a recorded land-use restriction: the deed limits what the property may be used for. Each links to its state file above; ask for the restriction's text before buying one.
Water at the Address
Public water systems in town: BLANDFORD WATER DEPT. Service areas have edges; an address outside them is on a well. 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)36,222 vehicles/day (2024 count)
- BLANDFORD TURNPIKE (Route-23)2,977 vehicles/day (count year unrecorded)
- RUSSELL STAGE ROAD2,668 vehicles/day (2021 count)
- OTIS STAGE ROAD (Route-23)2,517 vehicles/day (2023 count)
- COBBLE MOUNTAIN ROAD2,491 vehicles/day (2021 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. 152 properties in town appear in the state's historic inventory; listed buildings can carry review requirements on exterior work.
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Sources
- FEMA flood layer via MassGIS; FEMA flood-insurance claims. Checked 2026-08-05.
- Office of Dam Safety inventory; federal inventory for federally regulated dams. Checked 2026-08-05.
- MassDEP release and land-use-restriction registries (Chapter 21E). Checked 2026-08-05.
- MassDEP service registries; federal drinking-water system inventory; USGS well mapping. Checked 2026-08-05.
- MassDOT traffic count programme. Figures through the 2024 count.
- Town zoning references; Massachusetts historic inventory. Checked 2026-08-05.
"Figures through" is the period the publisher's data describes; "checked" is only when we last asked. The full sourcing: sources and method.