Westfield Center Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 25 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 174 National Register listings published here for Hampden County · listed in 2013 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 0-362 Elm, 2-86 Broad, 0-83 Court, 2-24 Main, 0-71 N. Elm, Chestnut, W. Silver & Union Sts., Westfield
When was it listed? June 2013
Category. district
National Register reference number. 13000441 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1887 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Westfield Center Historic District, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Westfield Center Historic District, surveyed 1887

Fires near this property

132 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Westfield Center Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 128 acres in total. 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80
Equipment and vehicle use	33
Natural	10
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	1
Arson/incendiarism	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 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2018	Natural	2.0 acres	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
17 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	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 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Westfield Center Historic District: 20 past producers, 11 producers, 3 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Marble, Dimension. 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
Hampden Marble Quarry Series	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
Westfield Quarry Plants L & 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hampden Marble Quarry Serpentine Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Metamorphic
Serpentine Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Metamorphic
Serpentine Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Baxter Sand and Gravel Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
John S Lane and Son Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Lane Construction Corp	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Moore Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pochassic Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Maps showing this location

25 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 Granville quadrangle1:62500
1889 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
1895 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1896 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
1937 USGS Southwick quadrangle1:24000
1942 USGS Southwick quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS Southwick quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Southwick quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Southwick quadrangle1:25000
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Southwick quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Southwick quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1972 USGS Southwick quadrangle1:25000
1976 USGS Southwick quadrangle1:25000
1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1987 USGS Southwick quadrangle1:25000
1997 USGS Southwick 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
Westfield Center Commercial Historic District	under 500 feet	2008
State Normal Training School	under 500 feet	1983
H. M. Van Deusen Whip Company	0.1 miles	1987
Octagon House	0.2 miles	1982
Westfield Municipal Building	0.2 miles	1978
United States Whip Company Complex	0.3 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000441 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.