Hawley · Franklin County
Check an Address in Hawley
The Town Around It
Whatever the address, these are Hawley's numbers. Each one opens the full record.
Flood, Town-wide
Flood Map Unavailable
The federal flood map for this town has not been digitised, so flood risk here is unmapped; that is not the same as absent. Ask the town's building department before relying on any flood answer.
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
Cox Pond Dam · Clesson Brook
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Gordon Pancer Dam · Mill Brook
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Hallockville Lower Dam · King Brook
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Hallockville Pond Dam · King 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.
Ron Nelson Dam · Tributary to Clesson Brook
Low hazard potential, a failure would be unlikely to cause loss of life or significant property damage.
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
- WEST HAWLEY ROAD (Route-8A-L)466 vehicles/day (2019 count)
- EAST HAWLEY ROAD411 vehicles/day (2020 count)
- 350 vehicles/day (count year unrecorded)
- SOUTH ROAD350 vehicles/day (count year unrecorded)
- FORGE HILL ROAD350 vehicles/day (count year unrecorded)
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. 53 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 2020 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.