Map of Longmeadow, Massachusetts in 2026

Longmeadow folks measure the town by the Green, the long, tree-lined park down the middle of Longmeadow Street, with the old houses set well back on either side and the Connecticut River flats out to the west. This map prints Longmeadow Street, Williams Street, Laurel Street, Shaker Road, Brookside Drive and South Park Avenue, with Cranberry Pond, Shaker Pond, Turret Park Pond and the Fannie Stebbins Preserve. Click here to purchase a print of this map for your wall.

Longmeadow is in Hampden County.

KNOWOL made this map in 2026 from public survey data and gave it the look of a vintage atlas. The river terrace and the ravines come from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and the Census Bureau supplied the streets and the town line. Longmeadow covers 9.7 square miles just south of Springfield, between the Connecticut River on the west, East Longmeadow on the east and Enfield, Connecticut, on the south, and it had 15,853 people at the 2020 census. The town page counts more than 30% of the land as permanent open space, including over 750 acres of conservation land along the river. Almost a fifth of the houses sit near a “dingle,” a steep, sandy, tree-lined ravine with a wetland at the bottom.

The long meadow

Longmeadow began as farmland inside the limits of Springfield. The Town of Longmeadow’s recorded history, in the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s list, dates European settlement to 1644, and Longmeadow was incorporated as a town in 1783, on October 17. The village green was laid out in the early 1700s on a sandy ridge about a mile east of the river, and the town center grew up around it. The First Congregational Church on the green dates to 1768, the Old Country Store to 1805, and the oldest of the more than 40 houses in the Longmeadow Historic District to 1725. The green became a park late in the 1800s, its war memorial was placed in 1931, and the district joined the National Register in 1982. The town remains part of Hampden County today.

In the 1800s and early 1900s Longmeadow was best known for its brownstone. Princeton University’s Neo-Gothic library is among the American buildings made of Longmeadow brownstone. The quarries lay in the busier East Village, and in 1894 that section split off to become East Longmeadow. The town stayed mostly pastoral until the street railway arrived around 1910, and then its population tripled in 15 years.

A mapmaker and a naturalist

Joseph Hutchins Colton was born in Longmeadow on July 5, 1800, and in 1831 he moved to New York and started a mapmaking firm that was an international leader in map publishing from 1831 to 1890. The firm’s maps came off engraved steel plates, which gave finer results than cheaper wax engravings, and they were known for their decorative borders. His firm made railroad maps, pocket maps, large wall maps and atlases, and its maps sit today in the Library of Congress and in archives across the country.

Along the river, the Fannie Stebbins Memorial Wildlife Refuge on Pondside Road protects 371 acres of Connecticut River floodplain. The Allen Bird Club set it up in 1951 in honor of Fannie Stebbins, a Springfield science teacher and naturalist who helped found the club in 1912, and the Massachusetts Audubon Society counts it an important birding area. Donald Ross designed the Longmeadow Country Club in 1922, Spalding tested its golf equipment there, and Bobby Jones, a Spalding consultant and club member, made a number of his instructional films on the course in the 1930s. Bay Path University, founded in 1897, keeps its main campus in town.

Around the map

Start at the Green on Longmeadow Street. Follow Shaker Road, Longmeadow Street, Williams Street, Laurel Street, South Park Avenue and Brookside Drive across town. Cranberry Pond, Porter Lake, Shaker Pond, Turret Park Pond, the Floodplain Conservation Area, South Park and the Fannie Stebbins Preserve are all printed on the map. Porter Lake lies in Springfield’s Forest Park, the 735-acre park that forms the town’s northern border, much of it on land that once belonged to Longmeadow.

The Longmeadow map makes a fine addition to an office, library or den, and it can help teach children the geography and history of the town where J. H. Colton was born. It’s made for people who call Longmeadow home, from the Green to the river meadows, and it shows the town as it looks today. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Longmeadow, Massachusetts map.

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Sources

• Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Wikipedia
• Longmeadow Historic District, Wikipedia
• J. H. Colton, Wikipedia
• Fannie Stebbins, Wikipedia
• Forest Park (Springfield, Massachusetts), Wikipedia
• City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (archived copy)