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Photograph of Meetinghouse Common District
Photograph by John Phelan, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Meetinghouse Common District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 18 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 480 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 1976 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. Summer, S. Common, and Main Sts., Lynnfield
  • When was it listed? November 1976
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 76000260 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

109 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Meetinghouse Common District between 2003 and 2020, burning about 144 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 ceremony27
Smoking21
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSAUGUS
23 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlLYNNFIELD

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Meetinghouse Common District: 8 past producers, 5 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ferro Ceramic Grinding--WakefieldSilicaPlant
Saugus DepositIronOccurrence
Camillieri Corp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Donald Innis IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Drinkwater QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kay Locke Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
New England Crushing CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Philip DrinkwaterSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Danvers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Essex Bituminous Concrete ProductsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Essex 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Henfield House0.6 miles1991
Hart House0.7 miles1990
Breakheart Reservation Parkways-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston3.7 miles2003
Lieut. Thomas Fuller House4.1 miles1990
Flint Public Library4.2 miles2002
Estey Tavern4.2 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76000260 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Essex CountyAll 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.