Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Dukes County · listed in 2011 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
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.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Barn House in 2018, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
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.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Gay Head-Aquinnah Town Center Historic District | 4.1 miles | 1999 |
 | Old Mill | 4.2 miles | 1984 |
 | Gay Head-Aquinnah Town Center Historic District (Boundary Increase) | 4.2 miles | 2001 |
 | Edwin DeVries Vanderhoop Homestead | 5.3 miles | 2006 |
 | Gay Head Light | 5.5 miles | 2017 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 11000920 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Dukes County | All 23 listed properties in this county. |
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