Built in 1791. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.
One of 480 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1791.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Baker's Island Light Station between 2016 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 July 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BEVERLY |
| 14 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 13 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 24 April 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BEVERLY |
| 19 April 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | WENHAM |
| 18 April 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 1 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 16 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BEVERLY |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Baker's Island Light Station: 2 producers, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mercury, Silver, Gold, REE, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Travers Labs Refinery--Beverly, Ma. | Mercury, Silver, Gold, REE | Plant | ||
| Atwater Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Manchester Crushed Stone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Manchester Sand and Stone Co. Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The American Gazette, Or, the Constitutional Journal | 1776 |
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.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes House | 2.2 miles | 1972 |
 | Captain Robert Haskell House | 2.4 miles | 2022 |
 | Manchester Village Historic District | 2.7 miles | 1990 |
 | New Hampshire, The | 3.1 miles | 1976 |
 | Marblehead Light | 3.5 miles | 1987 |
 | Fort Sewall | 3.5 miles | 1975 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 76000289 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Essex County | All 480 listed properties in this county. |
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