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Peter Kugel House
Built in 1970. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.
From the record
“The Peter Kugel House, also known as the Kugel-Gips House, is a historic house at 188 Way 626, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, in Cape Cod National Seashore. It is one of a modest number of surviving houses in Wellfleet that combine elements of Modern architecture with traditional Cape Cod architecture.”
Wikipedia article Peter Kugel House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 202 National Register listings published here for Barnstable County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1970.
Also known as. Mid 20th Century Modern Residential Architecture on Outer Cape Cod MPS
Town. Wellfleet town
When was it built? 1970
National Register reference number. 14000019 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1887 to 1993
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.
18871993
Fires near this property
65 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Peter Kugel House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
21
Recreation and ceremony
12
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Debris and open burning
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Smoking
5
Fireworks
2
Other causes
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
Natural
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 2,960 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Peter Kugel House between 1819 and 1975: 2,091 Animalia, 625 Plantae, 84 Chromista, 62 Bacteria, 57 Unrecorded, 41 Fungi.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. R. Alan Hodgdon Hodgdon, A. R. Hodgdon, A. R. Hodgdon; G. B. Rossbach and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Peter Kugel House: 1 past producer.
None of them 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Wellfleet, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
At 7:27 PM EST, the Beachcomber Restaurant in Wellfleet was evacuated due to flooding in the restaurant. At 7:35 PM EST, a car was floating in flood waters at the junction of Hamblin Farm Road and Chequessett Neck Road in Wellfleet. At 7:39 PM EST a car was towed from flood waters on Cove Road. At 8:06 PM EST a basement was flooded on Kendrick Avenue.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, 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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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