Moran Square Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 686 National Register listings published here for Worcester County · listed in 2018 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Myrtle Ave., Sawyer Passway, Summer, Lunenburg, Main & Willow Sts., Fitchburg
When was it listed? January 2018
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100001951 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

171 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Moran Square Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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	70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	63
Smoking	24
Recreation and ceremony	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Fireworks	3
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	1

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
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
7 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.4 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MONOOSNOC HILL

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Moran Square Historic District: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tin, Lithium, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Fitchburg Area	Tin, Lithium	Occurrence
Leominster Pit	Geothermal	Past Producer
Luenburg Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
P J Keating	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Szocik Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Tanzio Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Worcester County

Maps showing this location

20 surveys

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.

1887 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:62500
1889 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1935 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1936 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:125000
1946 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:31680 - 4 printings
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:50000
1954 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:31680
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:24000
1969 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:25000
1975 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:25000
1988 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Safety Fund National Bank	0.4 miles	2009
Monument Park Historic District	0.6 miles	1978
Fay Club	0.6 miles	1978
Fitchburg Historical Society	0.6 miles	2003
Academy Street Educational Historic District	0.7 miles	2025
Calvinistic Congregational Church	0.8 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001951 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Worcester County	All 686 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.