Chatham, Massachusetts

Chatham grew from 1,421 to 1,551 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 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1888 1993

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.

• 1888 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:62500
• 1917 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS Nauset quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:31680
• 1947 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:24000
• 1947 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:31680
• 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
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:24000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1974 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:25000
• 1974 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:24000
• 1974 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:25000
• 1974 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1890 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Chatham between 2003 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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:

• Quitnesset
• Chatham Port
• North Chatham
• West Chatham
• Shooters Island
• South Chatham

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Museums hold 1,559 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chatham between 1840 and 1975: 694 Animalia, 650 Plantae, 151 Fungi, 38 Unrecorded, 18 Bacteria, 8 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Pealey, 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
	Carya tomentosa (Lam.) Nutt.	1840	Collector unspecified
	Alosa mediocris (Mitchill, 1814)	1871	MCZ team	Brewster, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
	Bittiolum alternatum (Say, 1822)	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod
	Buccinum undatum Linnaeus, 1758	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod
	Gastropoda	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod
	Helix Linnaeus, 1758	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod
	Hydrobia minuta (Totten, 1834)	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod
	Lacuna vincta (Montagu, 1803)	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod
	Littorina littorea (Linnaeus, 1758)	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod
	Littorina rudis (Maton, 1797)	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod
	Lunatia heros (Say, 1822)	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod
	Melampus bidentatus Say, 1822	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod

All 1,559 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Chatham: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Every working recorded in Barnstable County

The National Weather Service names Chatham in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 2 flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

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 615912. 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.