Dunstable Center Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 1,353 National Register listings published here for Middlesex County · listed in 2018 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. High, Highland, Main, & Pleasant Sts., Dunstable
When was it listed? November 2018
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100003069 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

24 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Dunstable Center Historic District between 2014 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
2 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Hampshire Division of Forest and Lands	not named
24 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
11 June 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
29 May 2020	Arson/incendiarism	1.8 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 May 2015	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Dunstable Center Historic District: 20 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
West Chelmsford Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Fletcher Westford Quarry	Granite	Producer
Forest Road Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Guilmette Bros Granite	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
H E Fletcher Co	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Le Masurier Granite Quarry Inc	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Le Masurier Quarry and Mill	Granite	Producer
North Chelmsford Quarry	Granite	Producer
Oak Hill Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Oakhill Granite Co Inc	Granite	Past Producer	Granite

Every working recorded in Middlesex County

Maps showing this location

21 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.

1886 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1918 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500
1921 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500
1931 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:48000
1935 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1940 USGS Tyngsoboro quadrangle1:31680
1941 USGS Tyngsboro quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1942 USGS Tyngsboro quadrangle1:31680
1943 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:125000
1946 USGS Tyngsboro quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Tyngsboro quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Tyngsboro quadrangle1:31680
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Nashua South quadrangle1:24000 - 7 printings
1984 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
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
Dunstable Town Hall	0.3 miles	1999
Old Town Hall	2.9 miles	2005
Winslow School and Littlefield Library	3.0 miles	2017
Col. Jonathan Tyng House	3.9 miles	1977
Bennett-Shattuck House	4.4 miles	2006
District 7 School	4.5 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003069 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.

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.