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Photograph of Aptucxet Trading Post Museum
Photograph by Vejlenser, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Aptucxet Trading Post Museum Historic District

Built in 1930 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 22 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 202 National Register listings published here for Barnstable County · listed in 2021 · category: District · built in 1930, Colonial Revival architecture.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. 6 Aptucxet Rd., Bourne
  • When was it listed? March 2021
  • Category. district
  • When was it built? 1930
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 100006301 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1886 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Aptucxet Trading Post Museum Historic District, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Aptucxet Trading Post Museum Historic District, surveyed 1886

Fires near this property

190 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Aptucxet Trading Post Museum Historic District between 2001 and 2020, burning about 243 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined72
Debris and open burning35
Smoking31
Arson/incendiarism17
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
7 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 September 2002Smokingunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
4 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Maps showing this location

22 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
Jonathan Bourne Public Library0.4 miles2013
George I. Briggs House0.4 miles1981
Bourne High School0.6 miles2013
Bourne Town Hall0.6 miles2013
Bournedale Village School3.3 miles2013
Cataumet Schoolhouse4.9 miles2019

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100006301 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.