South Chatham Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 17 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 2022 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Western portion of Main St., and northern portions of Deep Water Ln., Forest Beach Rd., and Pleasant St., Chatham
When was it listed? August 2022
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100008033 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1887 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering South Chatham Village Historic District, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering South Chatham Village Historic District, surveyed 1887

Fires near this property

69 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of South Chatham Village Historic District between 2003 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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	33
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	1968
5 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	1944
17 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
16 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
10 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	1993
6 August 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
29 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of South Chatham Village Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Nickerson T W Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Pine Hill Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Barnstable County

Maps showing this location

17 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.

1887 USGS Yarmouth quadrangle1:62500
1889 USGS Yarmouth quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Yarmouth quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Cape Cod Bay quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Harwich quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1948 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Harwich quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Harwich quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Harwich quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1974 USGS Harwich quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Harwich quadrangle1:25000
1986 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Mercelia Evelyn Eldridge Kelley House	under 500 feet	2005
South Harwich Methodist Church	1.1 miles	1986
Louis Brandeis House	2.2 miles	1972
Harwich Historic District	2.5 miles	1975
Marconi-RCA Wireless Receiving Station	2.8 miles	1994
Chatham Railroad Depot	3.3 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100008033 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Barnstable County	All 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.