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Allerton, Massachusetts

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Hull town. It lies in ZIP code area 02045. It stands on Allerton Hill. The Survey maps it on the Hull quadrangle.

Allerton within Plymouth County

Then and now

1892 to 1997

The same ground, 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 of Allerton, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Allerton, surveyed 1892

Compare 1892 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

41 sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires nearby

78 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Allerton between 2015 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHINGHAM
18 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHINGHAM
17 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHINGHAM
31 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHINGHAM
29 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHULL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 4,481 shown

Museums hold 4,481 specimens collected within 10 miles of Allerton between 1815 and 1975: 2,978 Plantae, 618 Animalia, 441 Fungi, 368 Chromista, 54 Unrecorded, 16 Protozoa, 6 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), A Loveridge, A Phelps Wyman 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Pallavicinia lyellii (Hook.) GrayPallavicinia lyellii (Hook.) Gray1900Frad G. Floydedge of Tumble Pond, Stang Brook, Brook Reservation
Ericaceae1815BoottBoston, U.S.A.
A photograph of the species Limonium vulgare, not of this specimenLimonium vulgare Mill.1815not recordedOn Cragies Road [=near Cragies Bridge], 1 1/2 miles from Boston.
A photograph of the species Mollugo verticillata, not of this specimenMollugo verticillata L.1815Boott, F.M.B.Boston.
A photograph of the species Ranunculus L., not of this specimenRanunculus L.1815not recordedThicket at South Boston.
A photograph of the species Fallopia Adans., not of this specimenFallopia Adans.1816Boott, J.W.Andover Turnpike, near Boston. N. America.
A photograph of the species Bombus affinis, not of this specimenBombus affinis Cresson, 18631899not recordedDorchester
A photograph of the species Cynoglossum officinale, not of this specimenCynoglossum officinale L.1899Nathaniel T. KidderDorchester, Washington Street, foot Codman Hill
A photograph of the species Ensis directus, not of this specimenEnsis directus (Conrad, 1844)1899Collector(s): Frank Collins BakerQuincy, Squantum
A photograph of the species Ilex glabra, not of this specimenIlex glabra (L.) A.Gray1899Nathaniel T. KidderBlue Hills Reservation, near Purgatory Road
Lepidium ruderale L.1899not recorded
A photograph of the species Mercenaria mercenaria, not of this specimenMercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758)1899Collector(s): unknownQuincy, Squantum

All 4,481 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Allerton: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Hingham PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

Storms nearby

3 since 2017

The National Weather Service names Allerton in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017Thunderstorm WindAllerton$1,000At 458 PM EST, a tree was reported down in Hull. Also 20 ft. branch was reported down on Touraine Avenue in Hull.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAllerton-At 3:40 PM EST, the mesonet station at Hull reported a wind gust to 58 mph.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindAllerton-A mesonet station reported a wind gust to 67 mph.

Every storm recorded in Plymouth County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Windemere0.2 miles41
Bayside0.3 miles41
Fort Duvall0.7 miles41
Waveland0.9 miles41
Stony Beach1.0 miles41
Fort Revere1.3 miles41
Hull1.3 miles41
Kenberma1.5 miles39

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 614039. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.