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Old Bedford Center Historic District (Boundary Increase and Decrease)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 18 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 1,353 National Register listings published here for Middlesex County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly The Great Rd. from Bacon Rd., Memorial Park & Narrow Gauge Trail on E. to North & Concord Rds. on W., Bedford
When was it listed? June 2014
Category. district
National Register reference number. 14000327 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Old Bedford Center Historic District (Boundary Increase and Decrease) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 31 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	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
22 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Minute Man National Historical Park	FISKEHILL
26 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
6 June 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
25 June 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 June 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Old Bedford Center Historic District (Boundary Increase and Decrease): 6 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Titanium. 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
Dynamet Tech--Burlington, Ma.	Titanium	Plant
Carlisle Deposit	Copper	Occurrence
Cu Prospect	Copper	Past Producer
Burlington S & G Co., Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Burlington Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
D R Raymond	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Joseph Roberto Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Joseph Roberto Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Quinn-Perkins Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Thomas Quinn Co Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Middlesex County

Maps showing this location

18 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 Framingham quadrangle1:62500
1889 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1918 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Concord quadrangle1:31680 - 4 printings
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Concord quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1950 USGS Concord quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Concord quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1970 USGS Concord quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1977 USGS Concord quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Maynard quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
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
Bedford Center Historic District	0.2 miles	1977
Bedford Depot	0.4 miles	2003
Nathaniel Page House	0.7 miles	1978
David Lane House	0.8 miles	1980
Bedford Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District	0.9 miles	2012
Christopher Page House	0.9 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000327 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Middlesex County	All 1353 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.