Grange, The, (Boundary Increase)

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 1,353 National Register listings published here for Middlesex County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. Codman Rd., Lincoln
When was it listed? May 1976
Category. building
National Register reference number. 76001969 - 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Grange, The, (Boundary Increase) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
5 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
16 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Minute Man National Historical Park	FISKEHILL
3 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
26 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
19 July 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Grange, The, (Boundary Increase): 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Burton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Massachusetts Broken Stone Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Pepperell Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Weston Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

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
Grange, The	under 500 feet	1974
Woods End Road Historic District	0.7 miles	1988
Gropius House	0.7 miles	2000
Henry Higginson House	1.2 miles	2005
Walden Pond	1.5 miles	1966
Lincoln Center Historic District	1.5 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001969 in Record Group 79.
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.