Wakefield Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 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 1990 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly Park Ave. between Summit Ave. and Chestnut St., Wakefield
When was it listed? March 1990
Category. district
Also known as. Wakefield MRA
National Register reference number. 89000755 - 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

96 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Wakefield Park between 2003 and 2020, burning about 120 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 ceremony	26
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	11
Smoking	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	2

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
28 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
25 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	SAUGUS
23 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
7 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	SAUGUS
5 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	LYNN
4 August 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	AMESBURY

Every fire recorded in Middlesex 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 Wakefield Park: 8 past producers, 4 producers, 2 plants, 1 occurrence. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Peat. 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	Recorded
Ferro Ceramic Grinding--Wakefield	Silica	Plant
Mahoney:S Rocky Ledge	Peat	Past Producer	Peat
Rocky Ledge Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Austin Hastings--Woburn, Ma.	Iron	Plant
Saugus Deposit	Iron	Occurrence
Drinkwater Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kay Locke Inc Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
New England Crushing Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Philip Drinkwater	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Marlborough Plant/Polishing Plates	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 Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
1888 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1918 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Reading quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Reading quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Reading quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Reading quadrangle1:25000
1966 USGS Reading quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Reading quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Reading quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1988 USGS Lowell 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
House at 39 Converse Street	under 500 feet	1989
House at 6 Adams Street	under 500 feet	1989
H. M. Warren School	0.1 miles	1989
House at 1 Morrison Avenue	0.1 miles	1989
House at 95 Chestnut Street	0.1 miles	1989
Dr. Charles Jordan House	0.2 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000755 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.