Camp Wakitatina, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 1988

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 Lowell quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500
• 1921 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500
• 1940 USGS Westford quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Westford quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Westford quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:125000
• 1946 USGS Westford quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Westford quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Westford quadrangle1:31680
• 1950 USGS Westford quadrangle1:24000
• 1950 USGS Westford quadrangle1:24000
• 1950 USGS Westford quadrangle1:31680
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Westford quadrangle1:24000
• 1966 USGS Westford quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Billerica quadrangle1:25000
• 1988 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Camp Wakitatina between 2015 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 1 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.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Graniteville
• Camp Cielo Celeste
• Camp Nashoba
• Brookside Station
• Camp Immaculate Heart
• Camp Massapoag

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Museums hold 489 specimens collected within 10 miles of Camp Wakitatina between 1898 and 1975: 296 Animalia, 71 Plantae, 64 Protozoa, 52 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. C. Gibson, A. F. Newton 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
	Exosporium pusillum P.Karst.	1898	King C. A.	Stony Brook
	Galium tinctorium (L.) Scop.	1899	not recorded
	Muhlenbergia uniflora (Muhl.) Fernald	1899	E. F. Williams
	Oryzopsis asperifolia Michx.	1899	J M Greenman
	Araiospora pulchra Thaxt.	1900	Thaxter, R.	Stony Brook
	Boletus frostii J.L.Russell	1900	A. W. Flint
	Cenangium tuberculiforme Ellis & Everh.	1900	Rorer, J. B.	East Billerica
	Alabama argillacea (Hübner, 1823)	1930	not recorded	Lowell
	Alopecurus aequalis Sobol.	1930	M. L. Fernald; C. A. Weatherby
	Carex communis var. communis	1930	E. J. Palmer	Rocky banks, top of Hemlock Hill. [Inferred locality from precise loc.]
	Carex nigra (L.) Reichard	1930	R J Eaton
	Cistothorus stellaris (J.F.Naumann, 1823)	1930	Collector(s): James Lee Peters	Harvard

All 489 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Camp Wakitatina: 16 past producers, 8 producers, 2 plants. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite. 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 Middlesex 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 617916. 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.