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Photograph of First Congregational Parish Historic District
Photograph by Stina716, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

First Congregational Parish Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 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 2014 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 3 First Parish Ln., 26 Bridge Rd., Truro
  • When was it listed? May 2014
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 14000214 - 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 First Congregational Parish Historic District, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering First Congregational Parish Historic District, surveyed 1887

Fires near this property

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of First Congregational Parish Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. None 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/undetermined15
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 1998Smoking3.0 acresCape Cod National SeashorePILGRIM HT
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreHEAD OF THE MEADOW
22 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreLONG POND ROAD FIRE
22 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreGROSS HILL ROAD FIRE
22 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresCape Cod National SeashoreSHAPIRO
15 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreHORTONS ADVENTURE BOUND FIRE

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 First Congregational Parish 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
John F Wood Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
North Truro PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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.

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
Union Hallunder 500 feet1997
Cobb Memorial Library0.3 miles2013
Jedediah Higgins House0.8 miles1984
Pine Grove Cemetery1.4 miles2013
Old North Cemetery2.1 miles2013
Ahearn House and Summer House2.7 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14000214 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.