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Photograph of Sea Call Farm
Photograph by Jerry Johnson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sea Call Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 18 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 202 National Register listings published here for Barnstable County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. 82 Tonset Rd, Orleans
  • When was it listed? June 2008
  • Category. building
  • National Register reference number. 08000530 - 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

1887 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Sea Call Farm, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet covering Sea Call Farm, surveyed 1887

Fires near this property

72 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Sea Call Farm between 1993 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use15
Debris and open burning9
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism3
Fireworks1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2018Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control1946
24 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control1520
3 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control1025

Every fire recorded in Barnstable 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Universalist Society Meetinghouse0.3 miles1999
French Cable Station0.4 miles1972
Collins Cottages Historic District0.9 miles1999
Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat CG 365001.7 miles2005
Cove Burying Ground1.7 miles1999
Edward Penniman House and Barn2.3 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08000530 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Barnstable CountyAll 202 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.