Built in 1735 in the Georgian architecture. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2002. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The Elnathan Nye House is a historic house at 33 Old Main Road in North Falmouth, Massachusetts. The oldest portion of this house was built c. 1735; it was extended to its present five-bay facade in 1772.”
Wikipedia article Elnathan Nye House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 145 National Register listings in Barnstable County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · built in 1735, Georgian architecture.
Architectural style. Georgian architecture, colonial architecture
National Register reference number.02000697- 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Nye, Elnathan, House between
2001 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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
30
Arson/incendiarism
9
Debris and open burning
7
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Smoking
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 10,326 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Nye, Elnathan, House between 1791 and
1975: 5,349 Animalia, 3,095 Plantae, 901 Fungi, 786 Chromista, 145 Bacteria, 26 Protozoa, 24 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A B Seymour, A. A. Cohen, A. B. Harvey and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Nye, Elnathan, House: 4 past producers, 4 producers.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Falmouth, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 2 hail, 1 flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Two to six inches of rain fell over portions of Cape Cod. This resulted in flooding of roads, mainly in Falmouth. The Falmouth Fire Department made several trips to rescue people from cars in water up to three feet deep. Route 28 or Main Street in Falmouth was flooded along with Route 130 in Sandwich.
At 1248 PM EST, Main Street in Falmouth was closed due to significant street flooding. Water levels near Dunkin Donuts were up to vehicles' hoods. At 1257 PM EST, Palmer Avenue was also flooded and impassable. Rainfall of 3.75 inches was reported in East Falmouth.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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