Cedarville Landing, Massachusetts
39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Plymouth town. It lies in ZIP code area 02360. It stands on Eagle Hill. The Survey maps it on the Sagamore quadrangle.
Then and now
1886 to 1994The 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.


Topographic sheets covering this place
39 sheetsMatched 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 Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
- 1889 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
- 1921 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
- 1933 USGS Sagamore quadrangle1:24000
- 1940 USGS Sagamore quadrangle1:31680
- 1940 USGS Sagamore quadrangle1:31680
- 1940 USGS Sagamore quadrangle1:31680
- 1940 USGS Sagamore quadrangle1:31680
- 1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000
- 1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000
- 1943 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
- 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
- 1951 USGS Sagamore quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Sagamore quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Sagamore quadrangle1:31680
- 1951 USGS Sagamore quadrangle1:31680
- 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Sagamore quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Sagamore quadrangle1:25000
- 1967 USGS Sagamore quadrangle1:25000
- 1977 USGS Sagamore quadrangle1:25000
- 1986 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
91 since 2001The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Cedarville Landing between 2001 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined | 34 |
| Debris and open burning | 27 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | 2724 |
| 26 September 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 20 September 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 8 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | PLYMOUTH |
| 30 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | PLYMOUTH |
| 29 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | PLYMOUTH |
| 20 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | PLYMOUTH |
| 2 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 5,321 shownMuseums hold 5,321 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cedarville Landing between 1816 and 1975: 4,363 Animalia, 524 Plantae, 295 Fungi, 136 Chromista, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. C. Mathieson, 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. |
![]() | Juncus greenei Oakes & Tuck. | 1825 | W. Oakes | Plymouth |
![]() | Baptisia tinctoria (L.) R.Br. | 1837 | J. Blake | |
![]() | Amaranthus hybridus L. | 1855 | not recorded | |
![]() | Clethra alnifolia L. | 1855 | not recorded | |
![]() | Euthamia lanceolata (L.) G.L.Nesom | 1855 | not recorded | |
| Cortinarius collinitus (Sow. ex Fr.) Fr. | 1899 | H. Webster | Wareham | |
| Limacella illinita (Fr.) Murrill | 1899 | H. Webster |
All 5,321 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cedarville Landing: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gil-Pam Construction Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nameloc Heights | 0.6 miles | 39 | |
| Cedarville | 0.8 miles | 39 | |
| Halfway Pond | 2.0 miles | 39 | |
| Ellisville | 2.1 miles | 39 | |
| Harlows Landing | 2.4 miles | 39 | |
| Eastland Heights | 2.5 miles | 39 | |
| Pondville | 3.2 miles | 39 | |
| Bayside Beach | 3.7 miles | 39 |
Elsewhere
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.
| Wikidata item Q122541152 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 616270. 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.















































