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Photograph of United States Whip Company Complex
Photograph by John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

United States Whip Company Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 24 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 174 National Register listings published here for Hampden County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. 24 Main St., Westfield
  • When was it listed? November 1983
  • Category. building
  • National Register reference number. 83003983 - 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

135 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of United States Whip Company Complex between 2015 and 2020, burning about 129 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Equipment and vehicle use33
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2018Natural2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
14 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of United States Whip Company Complex: 20 past producers, 11 producers, 3 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Marble, Dimension. 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
Hampden Marble Quarry SeriesMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Westfield Quarry Plants L & 2Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hampden Marble Quarry Serpentine QuarryStone, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
Serpentine QuarryStone, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
Serpentine QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Baxter Sand and Gravel IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
John S Lane and Son IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lane Construction CorpSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Moore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pochassic Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Maps showing this location

24 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83003983 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hampden CountyAll 174 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.