Built in 1870 in the eclectic architecture. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2015. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The First Baptist Church of Scituate is a historic Baptist church building at 656 Country Way in Scituate, Massachusetts. It is a wood-frame structure with eclectic Victorian styling, including quoining at the corners and bracketed eaves.”
Wikipedia article First Baptist Church of Scituate, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 93 National Register listings in Plymouth County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · built in 1870, eclectic architecture, by Shepard S. Woodcock · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Plymouth County.
National Register reference number. 15000469 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
74 since 2015
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 74 fires within 5 miles of First Baptist Church of Scituate between
2015 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning
43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
9
Misuse of fire by a minor
7
Recreation and ceremony
5
Natural
4
Smoking
4
Arson/incendiarism
2
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 1,651 specimens
collected within 10 miles of First Baptist Church of Scituate between 1836 and
1975: 854 Plantae, 316 Animalia, 247 Fungi, 131 Unrecorded, 84 Chromista, 13 Protozoa, 6 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A Loveridge, A. B. Seymour, A. C. Mathieson 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 National Weather Service names
Scituate, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flood, 1 lightning.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Places like Duxbury and East Bridgewater received 4.49 inches and 3.62 inches of rain respectively. In North Scituate at 2:30 AM EST Hollett St at Country Way was flooded.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
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.
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.
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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