Old North Cemetery

Built in 1713. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 14 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 2013 · category: Site · built in 1713.

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

The listing

Address. US 6 & Aldrich Rd., Truro
When was it listed? March 2013
Category. site
When was it built? 1713
National Register reference number. 13000095 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Old North Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Smoking	5
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 September 1998	Smoking	3.0 acres	Cape Cod National Seashore	PILGRIM HT
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cape Cod National Seashore	HEAD OF THE MEADOW
22 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Cape Cod National Seashore	SHAPIRO
15 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cape Cod National Seashore	HORTONS ADVENTURE BOUND FIRE
11 September 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Cape Cod National Seashore	FOX WILDFIRE
20 August 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Cape Cod National Seashore	BLACKPOND
5 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Cape Cod National Seashore	NTAFB
4 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	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 Old North Cemetery: 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
	John F Wood Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	North Truro Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Barnstable County

Maps showing this location

14 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 Provincetown quadrangle1:62500
1889 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1898 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS North Truro quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS North Truro quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS North Truro quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1972 USGS North Truro quadrangle1:24000
1972 USGS North Truro quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1977 USGS North Truro quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
Truro Highlands Historic District	1.1 miles	2011
Highland House	1.1 miles	1975
Highland Light Station	1.5 miles	1987
Jedediah Higgins House	1.6 miles	1984
First Congregational Parish Historic District	2.1 miles	2014
Union Hall	2.1 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000095 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.