Hampden · Hampden County

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The Town Around It

Whatever the address, these are Hampden's numbers. Each one opens the full record.

What Just Sold22 homes in Q3 2025 · median $413,200 How Often Homes TradeAbout once every 43 years HeatMost homes burn heating oil SchoolsTown districts run through grade 12 InternetCable is wired here Chapter 40B3.0%, below the 10% threshold Getting OutSpringfield is about 21 min by road

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.

3 federal flood-insurance claims have been filed from this town since 2005 (most recent: 2017). Counted by the claim's self-reported city, so this can undercount. History, not a prediction.

Dams in Town

Breached - Labonte Pond Dam · Scantic River
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Breached - Worthington Pond Dam · Scantic River
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Caldon Lower Dam · Tributary to Scantic River
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Caldon Upper Pond Dam · Tributary to Scantic River
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Chaffin Pond Dam · Scantic River
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Chaffin Pond Dike · Scantic River
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Driscoll Pond Dam · Tributary to Scantic River
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
George Ingle Pond Dam · West Brook
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
…and 7 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

Public water systems in town: VANTAGE AT HAMPDEN, HAMPDEN HOUSING AUTHORITY, WHITE BIRCH GARDEN APARTMENTS and 1 more. 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

STONY HILL ROAD8,126 vehicles/day (2014 count)
MAIN STREET7,980 vehicles/day (2015 count)
SOMERS ROAD7,914 vehicles/day (2021 count)
ALLEN STREET7,914 vehicles/day (2021 count)
SCANTIC ROAD5,543 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. 116 properties in town appear in the state's historic inventory; listed buildings can carry review requirements on exterior work.

Check an Address Nearby

The same lookup for the nearest towns, each at its own rate.

Wilbraham$17.45 per $1,000 · $7,572 a year East Longmeadow$19.43 per $1,000 · $6,735 a year Monson$14.30 per $1,000 · $5,084 a year Ludlow$16.01 per $1,000 · $5,320 a year Palmer$16.66 per $1,000 · $4,630 a year Longmeadow$19.32 per $1,000 · $9,966 a year

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.