Whately · Franklin County
Check an Address in Whately
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 Whately'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.
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
Francis P. Ryan Dam · West 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.
South Deerfield Water Supply Dam · Roaring 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.
West Whately Reservoir Dam · West 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.
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.
- WHATELY TRUCK STOP · 372 STATE ROAD · state file 1-0019166 (TIERII)
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: WHATELY WATER DEPARTMENT. 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
- INTERSTATE 91 (I-91)30,285 vehicles/day (2024 count)
- STATE ROAD (US-5)13,752 vehicles/day (2019 count)
- ROUTE 116 (Route-116)12,782 vehicles/day (2016 count)
- RAMP-RTS 5/10 TO RT 91 SB5,107 vehicles/day (2022 count)
- RAMP-RT 91 NB TO RTS 5/104,921 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. 266 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.