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Photograph of Town Hall Square Historic District
Photograph by Andrewrabbott, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Town Hall Square Historic District Boundary Increase

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 18 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.

From the record

One of 202 National Register listings published here for Barnstable County · listed in 2010 · category: District.

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

The listing

Then and now

1888 to 1994

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 Town Hall Square Historic District Boundary Increase, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Town Hall Square Historic District Boundary Increase, surveyed 1888

Fires near this property

97 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Town Hall Square Historic District Boundary Increase between 2001 and 2020, burning about 209 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined36
Debris and open burning20
Smoking14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
5 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control2746
5 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control2742
3 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control2724
2 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control2708
27 August 2002Smokingunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Town Hall Square Historic District Boundary Increase: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Campanella CorpSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Forestdale Pit & Plant TilconSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gil-Pam Construction PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
John and Mary Waterman Jarves House0.1 miles2002
Town Hall Square Historic District0.3 miles1975
Jarvesville Historic District0.4 miles2010
Wing Fort House1.6 miles1976
Spring Hill Historic District1.8 miles2010
Bournedale Village School3.7 miles2013

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000752 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.
  • 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.