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Photograph of Brewster Old King's Highway Historic District
Photograph by John Phelan, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Brewster Old King's Highway Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 202 National Register listings published here for Barnstable County · listed in 1996 · category: District.

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

The listing

Then and now

1887 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Brewster Old King's Highway Historic District, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Brewster Old King's Highway Historic District, surveyed 1887

Fires near this property

55 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Brewster Old King's Highway Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural3

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
24 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control1520
2 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control2597
16 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
16 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Maps showing this location

17 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Stony Brook-Factory Village Historic District1.8 miles2000
Nickerson Mansion1.9 miles1986
Old Higgins Farm Windmill2.0 miles1975
Dillingham House2.2 miles1976
Jacob Sears Memorial Library3.3 miles2009
Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat CG 365004.8 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96000162 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.