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Photograph of Monomoy Point Light
Photograph by Zachary Cava;U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Monomoy Point Lighthouse

Built in 1823. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 18 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.

From the record

One of 202 National Register listings published here for Barnstable County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1823.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. Monomoy Island, Chatham
  • When was it listed? November 1979
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Lighthouses of Massachusetts TR (AD); Lighthouses of Massachusetts TR
  • When was it built? 1823
  • National Register reference number. 79000324 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1888 to 1993

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 Monomoy Point Lighthouse, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet covering Monomoy Point Lighthouse, surveyed 1888

Fires near this property

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Monomoy Point Lighthouse in 2000, burning about 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
1 October 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresEastern Massachusetts National Wildlife Refuge ComplexMONOMOY

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Monomoy Point Lighthouse: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Pine Hill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Barnstable County

Maps showing this location

18 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

2 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
Chatham Light Station7.7 miles1987
Louis Brandeis House7.9 miles1972

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000324 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.