Central Churchill Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 23 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 174 National Register listings published here for Hampden County · listed in 2024 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Chestnut, Franklin, High, and Sargeant streets, Holyoke
When was it listed? July 2024
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100010564 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

336 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 336 fires within 5 miles of Central Churchill Historic District between 2014 and 2020, burning about 192 acres in total. 30 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
Equipment and vehicle use	130
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	125
Natural	30
Debris and open burning	30
Recreation and ceremony	14
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
29 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
28 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
2 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Hampden 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 Central Churchill Historic District: 13 producers, 12 past producers, 1 occurrence. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Brick Clay, Clay, Stone, Dimension, Flagstone. 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
Construction Aggregates Pit	Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Macia Emery Mine	Emery	Occurrence	Emery
Ondrick Industries	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
South Hadlay Sand	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Granby Quarry No 1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Traprock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Traprock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Maps showing this location

23 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 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
1933 USGS Chicopee quadrangle1:24000
1938 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:31680 - 4 printings
1943 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
1946 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1972 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:25000
1985 USGS Holyoke 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
Maplewood Hotel	0.3 miles	1983
Maplewood Hotel	0.3 miles	1983
Wistariahurst	0.3 miles	1973
Essex Street Historic District	0.3 miles	2023
Farr Alpaca Company Mills #1 and #3 Historic District	0.3 miles	2026
Friedrich Block	0.4 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100010564 in Record Group 79.
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.