Nantucket Historic District

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Nantucket County · listed in 1966 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. Nantucket Island, Nantucket
When was it listed? November 1966
Category. district
National Register reference number. 66000772 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1889 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Nantucket Historic District, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Nantucket Historic District, surveyed 1889

Fires near this property

14 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Nantucket Historic District between 2004 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 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	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	1
Debris and open burning	1
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
27 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
25 July 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
10 June 2005	Natural	under an acre	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
30 May 2006	Smoking	under an acre	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
14 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
29 April 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
28 April 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Nantucket County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Nantucket Historic District: 2 past producers, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Cape Cod and Islands Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Glowacki Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Nantucket Construction Company	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Nantucket County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

1889 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1901 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1942 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:125000
1945 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1948 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1951 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1951 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1977 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Martha's Vineyard quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Martha's Vineyard quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

3 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
Brant Point Light Station	1.9 miles	1987
Jethro Coffin House	2.0 miles	1968
Sankaty Head Light	7.0 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000772 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nantucket County	All 4 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.