Revere Beach Reservation Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

One of 345 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Eliot Circle, Revere Beach Blvd., Northern Circle, and Atlantic Ocean, Revere
When was it listed? July 1998
Category. district
National Register reference number. 98000871 - 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.

Then and now

1892 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Revere Beach Reservation Historic District, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Revere Beach Reservation Historic District, surveyed 1892

Fires near this property

52 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Revere Beach Reservation Historic District between 2003 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Debris and open burning	13
Smoking	10
Recreation and ceremony	9
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
4 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
21 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
20 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Revere Beach Reservation Historic District: 3 plants, 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Lead, Silica, Gold. 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) Vulcan Smelter--Chelsea, Ma.	Copper, Lead	Plant
Lynn Eastern Smelt & Refin Corp	Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Mercury	Plant
Syncor Prdts Co--Malden, Ma.	Silica	Plant
Malden Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Malden Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Saugus Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Trimount Bituminous Products Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Suffolk 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.

1892 USGS Boston Bay quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1903 USGS Boston Bay quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1944 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:25000
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:31680
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1956 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1970 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:25000
1970 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1997 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:25000

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
Revere Beach Reservation	under 500 feet	2003
Winthrop Parkway, Metropolitan Parkway System of Greater Boston	1.2 miles	2004
Church of Christ	1.5 miles	1984
Rumney Marsh Burying Ground	1.5 miles	2004
Ronan, Mary, T., School	1.6 miles	1982
Revere City Hall and Police Station	1.7 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000871 in Record Group 79.
Suffolk County	All 345 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.