Southborough Center Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 19 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 2021 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Main and Common Sts., Middle, Cordaville, and Latisquama Rds., Southborough
When was it listed? December 2021
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100007264 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

120 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Southborough Center Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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	50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Recreation and ceremony	11
Arson/incendiarism	9
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	1
Natural	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 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
7 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
7 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MARLBORO
29 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
19 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Southborough Center Historic District: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
C and M Enterprises	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Haynes Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hopkinton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Hopkinton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Northboro Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Worcester County

Maps showing this location

19 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 Marlboro quadrangle1:62500
1889 USGS Marlboro quadrangle1:62500
1896 USGS Marlboro quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Marlboro quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1908 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Marlboro quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Marlboro quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1953 USGS Marlboro 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 Marlborough quadrangle1:25000
1969 USGS Marlborough quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Marlborough quadrangle1:25000
1983 USGS Marlborough quadrangle1:25000 - 3 printings
1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Boston 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
Bradley, J.D.C., House	1.1 miles	1999
Marlborough Brook Filter Beds	1.9 miles	1990
South Union School	2.4 miles	2011
Westborough State Hospital	4.2 miles	1994
Vintonville Historic District	4.8 miles	2006
West Main Street Historic District (Boundary Increase II)	5.0 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100007264 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.