Orange · Franklin County
Check an Address in Orange
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 Orange'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 2022. Counted by the claim's self-reported city, so this can undercount. History, not a prediction.
Dams in Town
Boston Fiber Company Dam · East Branch Tully River
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Breached - Eagleville Dam · Eagleville Branch Millers Rivers
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Diversion Dam · East Branch Tully River
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Fire Pond Dam · Coolidge Brook
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Gale Brothers Dam · Tributary to West Branch Tully River
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Haskins Pond Dam · Orcutt 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.
Johnsonian Pond Dam · Poor Farm Brook
Low hazard potential, a failure would be unlikely to cause loss of life or significant property damage.
Lake Mattawa North Dam · North Pond 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.
- …and 16 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.
- MCKENNEYS MOBIL · 300 SOUTH MAIN ST · state file 1-0000136 (TIERI)
- RESIDENTIAL HAGER · 726 SOUTH MAIN ST · state file 1-0012613 (TIERII)
- TRAILER HOME · 30 GLENWOOD AVENUE · state file 1-0020217 (TIER1D)
- RESIDENTIAL AST RELEASE · 15 BLODGETT STREET · state file 1-0020905 (TIER1D)
- PROPERTY · 24 EAST RIVER STREET · state file 1-0021228 (TIERII)
- BEHIND BUILDING · 660 EAST MAIN STREET · state file 1-0019594 (TIERII)
- VACANT MILL BUILDING · 16-36 WEST RIVER STREET · state file 1-0021566 (TIER1D)
6 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: ORANGE WATER DEPT. Service areas have edges; an address outside them is on a well. Sewer treatment exists (ORANGE SEWER); beyond its lines, septic. Bedrock well yield in town rates "average specific yield".
The Busiest Roads
- MOHAWK TRAIL (Route-2)9,597 vehicles/day (2022 count)
- NEW ATHOL ROAD (Route-2A)8,416 vehicles/day (2024 count)
- EAST MAIN STREET (Route-2A)7,227 vehicles/day (2024 count)
- SOUTH MAIN STREET (Route-122)7,206 vehicles/day (2023 count)
- DANIEL SHAYS HIGHWAY (US-202)5,860 vehicles/day (2022 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. 459 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.
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.