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One of 174 National Register listings published here for Hampden County · listed in 2019 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Federal Square Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 25 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.
The listing
- Address. 1 Federal St., Springfield
- When was it listed? March 2019
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100003546 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
565 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 565 fires within 5 miles of Federal Square Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 184 acres in total. 23 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 320 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 129 |
| Debris and open burning | 35 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 30 |
| Natural | 23 |
| Smoking | 21 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 8 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 8 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 5 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 30 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Federal Square Historic District: 15 past producers, 12 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Brick Clay, Flagstone, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Construction Aggregates Pit | Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Granby Quarry No 1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Macia Emery Mine | Emery | Occurrence | Emery | |
| W. New England Smelting Works Inc | Copper | Producer | ||
| Bay State Refining Co--Chicopee, Ma | Aluminum | Plant | ||
| Chicopee Plant | Aluminum | Past Producer | ||
| Chase Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| John Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Ondrick Industries | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Smith Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Newspapers printed here
2 papers2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| Springfield Weekly Republican | 1851 to 1946 |
| Springfield Republican | 1838 to 1851 |
Maps showing this location
25 surveysUnited 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 Springfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1889 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
- 1896 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
- 1920 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1928 USGS Long Meadow quadrangle1:24000
- 1933 USGS Longmeadow quadrangle1:24000
- 1938 USGS Springfield South quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
- 1939 USGS Springfield South quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Springfield South quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
- 1944 USGS Springfield South quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Springfield South quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Springfield South quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Springfield South quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Springfield South quadrangle1:25000
- 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | St. James Apartments, The | 0.1 miles | 2020 |
 | Wigglesworth Building, The | 0.2 miles | 2020 |
 | Gunn and Hubbard Blocks | 0.2 miles | 1980 |
 | Springfield Armory National Historic Site | 0.3 miles | 2024 |
 | Upper Worthington Historic District | 0.3 miles | 1983 |
 | Masonic Temple | 0.4 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100003546 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Hampden County | All 174 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.