Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.
One of 1,353 National Register listings published here for Middlesex County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
The ground this property stands on, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Levi Wetherbee Farm between 2015 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2015 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 1 September 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 30 August 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 27 August 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 13 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | STOW |
| 5 July 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 3 July 2015 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 2 July 2017 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Levi Wetherbee Farm: 6 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kyanite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Hill Andalusite Occurrence | Kyanite | Occurrence | Metamorphic | |
| Boxborough Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| D. B. Raymond Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Melone Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Melone Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| San Vel Contracting Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| San Vel Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Stow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Stow Sand and Gravel Inc | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Wallace Fletcher | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Boxborough Old Town Center | 0.6 miles | 2006 |
 | Tenney Homestead | 2.8 miles | 1990 |
 | Walcott-Whitney House | 3.2 miles | 1990 |
 | Brown-Stow House | 3.3 miles | 1990 |
 | Acton High School | 3.6 miles | 2011 |
 | Jonathan and Simon Hosmer House | 3.8 miles | 2002 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 06001128 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Middlesex County | All 1353 listed properties in this county. |
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