Three Sisters of Nauset (Twin Lights)

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1887 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Three Sisters of Nauset (Twin Lights) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 7 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,309 specimens collected within 10 miles of Three Sisters of Nauset (Twin Lights) between 1819 and 1975: 1,155 Animalia, 845 Plantae, 135 Fungi, 67 Bacteria, 59 Chromista, 48 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Alan Hodgdon Hodgdon, A. R. Hodgdon, A. R. Hodgdon; G. B. Rossbach 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.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Laminaria caperata Bachelot de la Pylaie, 1824	1819	Collector unknown
	Pseudopleuronectes americanus (Walbaum, 1792)	1853	Atwood, Nathaniel E.	Cape Cod, Massachusetts
	Ammodytes americanus DeKay, 1842	1859	Weinland, David Friedrich	Cape Cod, Massachusetts
	Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766)	1859	Ordway, A.	Cape Cod, Massachusetts
	Stenotomus chrysops (Linnaeus, 1766)	1860	William Bemis	Cape Cod Bay, Wellfleet Harbor
	Paralichthys oblongus (Mitchill, 1815)	1862	MCZ team	Cape Cod, Massachusetts
	Carex foenea Willd.	1864	W. P. Alcott	Wellfleet
	Morone americana (Gmelin, 1789)	1864	MCZ team	Cape Cod, rivers, Massachusetts
	Scophthalmus aquosus (Mitchill, 1815)	1864	MCZ team	Cape Cod, Massachusetts
	Alosa mediocris (Mitchill, 1814)	1871	MCZ team	Brewster, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
	Peprilus triacanthus (Peck, 1804)	1871	Blake, John Henry	Cape Cod, Massachusetts
	Raja eglanteria Bosc, 1800	1871	MCZ team	Cape Cod, Massachusetts

All 2,309 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Three Sisters of Nauset (Twin Lights): 1 past producer. None of them 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.

Every working recorded in Barnstable County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eastham, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 4 lightning, 1 hail, 1 storm surge/tide, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 4 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Barnstable County

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

• 1887 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
• 1942 USGS Nauset quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Orleans quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
• 1946 USGS Orleans quadrangle1:24000
• 1946 USGS Orleans quadrangle1:25000
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
• 1948 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Orleans quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1974 USGS Orleans quadrangle1:24000
• 1974 USGS Orleans quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
• 1977 USGS Orleans quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:100000

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is reproduced in full on its own page, word for word and never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

The whole case file for this property - 1,516 words, 14 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 87001502, 14 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

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
	Beacon, The	0.4 miles	1987
	Nauset Beach Light	0.8 miles	1987
	French Cable Hut	1.1 miles	1976
	Old Town Center Historic District	1.1 miles	2001
	Eastham Center Historic District	1.4 miles	1999
	Bridge Road Cemetery	1.7 miles	1999