Otis Center Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.

From the record

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Berkshire County · listed in 2022 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 11-29 East Otis, 12-41 Monterey, 14-144 North Main, 8-120 South Main, 25 & 37 Witter Rds., Otis
When was it listed? April 2022
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100007553 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1888 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Otis Center Historic District, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Otis Center Historic District, surveyed 1888

Fires near this property

16 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Otis Center Historic District between 2015 and 2019, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 July 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
7 May 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
27 May 2016	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 May 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
11 May 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Otis Center Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite. 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
	Berkshire Quarry	Granite	Producer
	Williams Stone Co	Granite	Past Producer	Granite

Every working recorded in Berkshire 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.

1888 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1899 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1907 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
1946 USGS Otis quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Otis quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Otis quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Otis quadrangle1:25000
1973 USGS Otis quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Otis quadrangle1:25000
1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1987 USGS Otis quadrangle1:25000
1997 USGS Otis quadrangle1:25000

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
East Otis Schoolhouse	3.3 miles	2021
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival	5.0 miles	2003
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival	5.1 miles	2001
Montville Baptist Church	5.3 miles	2006
Capt. John Brewer House	6.0 miles	1984
Becket Center Historic District	6.4 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100007553 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Berkshire County	All 183 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.