Beverly Center Business District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.

From the record

One of 480 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 1984 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Chapman, Central, Brown, Dane, and Essex Sts., Beverly
When was it listed? July 1984
Category. district
National Register reference number. 84002313 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

54 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Beverly Center Business District between 2006 and 2020, burning about 226 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	17
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	8
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	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 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BEVERLY
4 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BEVERLY
27 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PEABODY
8 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BEVERLY
4 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BEVERLY
3 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Beverly Center Business District: 5 plants, 1 unknown, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zirconium, Thorium, Tungsten. 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
(Facility) Travers Labs Refinery--Beverly, Ma.	Mercury, Silver, Gold, REE	Plant
Hale Engineering Co--Danvers, Ma.	Tungsten	Plant
Thiokol Ventron Div--Danvers, Ma.	Thorium	Plant
Thiokol Ventron Div--Beverly, Ma.	Zirconium	Plant
Ventron Corp--Beverly, Ma.	Zirconium	Past Producer
Swampscott Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Swampscott Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Swampscott Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Maps showing this location

17 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.

1888 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1917 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500
1919 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Cape Ann quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Salem quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS Salem quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1956 USGS Salem quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1970 USGS Salem quadrangle1:25000
1970 USGS Salem quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Salem quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Salem quadrangle1:25000 - 3 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
Odd Fellows' Hall	0.1 miles	1978
Reverend John Hale House	0.2 miles	1974
Reverend John Hale House	0.2 miles	1974
Capt. John Cabot House	0.2 miles	1975
Beverly Grammar School	0.3 miles	1990
US Post Office-Beverly Main	0.3 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84002313 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.