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One of 686 National Register listings published here for Worcester County · listed in 2025 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Academy Street Educational Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.
The listing
- Address. 62, 82, and 98 Academy Street; 0 Elm Street; 0 Wallace Way, Fitchburg
- When was it listed? September 2025
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100012289 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
165 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Academy Street Educational Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 | 70 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 59 |
| Smoking | 22 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 7 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 5 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 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 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 4 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 3 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 24 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.4 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | MONOOSNOC HILL |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Academy Street Educational Historic District: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tin, Lithium, Geothermal. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fitchburg Area | Tin, Lithium | Occurrence | ||
| Leominster Pit | Geothermal | Past Producer | ||
| Luenburg Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| P J Keating | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Szocik Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Tanzio Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Maps showing this location
20 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.
- 1887 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1889 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
- 1935 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1936 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:125000
- 1946 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:31680 - 4 printings
- 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:50000
- 1954 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Fitchburg 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 Fitchburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:25000
- 1975 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:25000
- 1984 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:25000
- 1988 USGS Lowell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Fitchburg Historical Society | 0.2 miles | 2003 |
 | Monument Park Historic District | 0.2 miles | 1978 |
 | Calvinistic Congregational Church | 0.2 miles | 1979 |
 | Fay Club | 0.3 miles | 1978 |
 | Safety Fund National Bank | 0.3 miles | 2009 |
 | Fitchburg Yarn Mill | 0.6 miles | 2016 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012289 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.