Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.
One of 686 National Register listings published here for Worcester County · listed in 1983 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Westminster Village-Academy Hill Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 | 44 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 26 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 21 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.8 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 10 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.5 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 6 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 6 July 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 4 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 3 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
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.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Nathan Wood House | 1.6 miles | 1987 |
 | Ahijah Wood House | 1.7 miles | 1987 |
 | Wood, Ezra-Levi Warner Place | 2.1 miles | 1983 |
 | Jabez Partridge Homestead | 3.3 miles | 1979 |
 | Sylvester K. Pierce House | 3.8 miles | 2022 |
 | First Minister's House | 4.3 miles | 1979 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83000612 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Worcester County | All 686 listed properties in this county. |
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