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One of 480 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 1966 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site
A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
The listing
- Address. 244 Central St., Saugus
- When was it listed? October 1966
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 66000047 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
109 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site between 2003 and 2020, burning about 230 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 31 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Smoking | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 3 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 28 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 25 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | SAUGUS |
| 23 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 21 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 21 September 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 21 September 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site: 4 plants, 4 producers, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kay Locke Inc Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lynn Eastern Smelt & Refin Corp | Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Mercury | Plant | ||
| Saugus Deposit | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Ferro Ceramic Grinding--Wakefield | Silica | Plant | ||
| Syncor Prdts Co--Malden, Ma. | Silica | Plant | ||
| Malden Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Malden Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Richardson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Saugus Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Swampscott Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant |
Maps showing this location
17 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.
- 1893 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500 - 13 printings
- 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
- 1943 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:31680
- 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
- 1956 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:24000
- 1971 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:25000
- 1977 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:25000
- 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:25000 - 3 printings
- 1989 USGS Boston 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Saugus Town Hall | 0.2 miles | 1985 |
 | Boardman House | 1.6 miles | 1966 |
 | Lynn Woods Historic District | 1.8 miles | 1996 |
 | Breakheart Reservation Parkways-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston | 1.9 miles | 2003 |
 | Pine Grove Cemetery | 2.4 miles | 2014 |
 | Lynn Common Historic District | 2.6 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 66000047 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Essex County | All 480 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.