Bourne, Massachusetts

Bourne grew from 1,418 to 1,497 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 1994

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.

• 1886 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1915 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1920 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:20000
• 1941 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000
• 1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:25000
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:31680
• 1953 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:31680
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:25000
• 1967 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Bourne between 2001 and 2020, burning about 246 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 18 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Bourne Corners
• Bournedale
• Gray Gables
• Buzzards Bay
• Monument Beach
• North Pocasset

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Museums hold 2,211 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bourne between 1816 and 1975: 1,194 Animalia, 577 Plantae, 344 Fungi, 75 Chromista, 11 Bacteria, 7 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. H. Moore, A. R. Hodgdon 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
	Tolyposporium eriocauli G.P.Clinton	1900	G.P. Clinton
	Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle	1900	G. P. Clinton
	Cistus L.	1816	Boott, F.M.	Sandwich, Massts. [=Sandwich, Massachusetts].
	Lythraceae	1816	Boott, J.W.	Sandwich, Mass'ts. | [On reverse of sheet:] From Sandwich, Mass'ts U.S.A. [=From Sandwich, Massachusetts, U.S.A.]
	Malva neglecta Wallr.	1816	Boott, J.W.	Sandwich. Mass.tts.
	Chilomycterus geometricus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)	1860	unknown	Buzzards Bay
	Gobiosoma bosc (Lacepède, 1800)	1872	V. Edwards & United States Bureau of Fisheries	Wareham River, Massachusetts.
	Opsanus tau (Linnaeus, 1766)	1875	not recorded	Cataimet, Massachusetts, Squateagus near Woods Hole
	Pandalus leptocerus S.I.Smith, 1881	1875	United States Fish Commission	off Martha's Vineyard, southwest ledge
	Polysiphonia urceolata (Lightfoot ex Dillwyn) Greville	1875	B. E. Livingston	Woods Hole, Butlers Point
	Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758)	1875	United States Fish Commission	Nobska Beach
	Castanea Mill.	1876	Farlow, W.G.	Newton, Mass.

All 2,211 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Bourne in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 2 waterspout. The reports record 1 injury. 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

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

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 616366. 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.

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.