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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Cobbs Village, Massachusetts

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Barnstable Town City. It lies in ZIP code area 02630. It stands on Lobster Rock. The Survey maps it on the Hyannis quadrangle.

Cobbs Village within Barnstable County

Then and now

1888 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cobbs Village, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Cobbs Village, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

34 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

141 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Cobbs Village between 2003 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined68
Debris and open burning42
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control3126
6 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control3119
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control3117
5 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,141 shown

Museums hold 3,141 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cobbs Village between 1866 and 1975: 2,232 Animalia, 636 Plantae, 141 Fungi, 122 Chromista, 8 Protozoa, 1 Bacteria, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. R. Hodgdon, A. R. Hodgdon; H. K. Svenson;D. Conant;J. Wicks 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 Aecidium Pers.Aecidium Pers.1900Seymour, Arthur Blissnear Shoot-flying Hill [sic; Shootflying Hill], Hyannis, Mass. [Massachusetts]
Specimen of Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.1900A. B. SeymourHyannis
Specimen of Uromyces lineolatus (Desm.) J.Schröt.Uromyces lineolatus (Desm.) J.Schröt.1900W. G. Farlow
A photograph of the species Calidris alba, not of this specimenCalidris alba (Pallas, 1764)1866not recordedCape Cod
Ceramium diaphanum (Lightf.) Roth1873LuskCotuit Port
A photograph of the species Ceramium rubrum, not of this specimenCeramium rubrum C.Agardh1873LuskCotuit Port
A photograph of the species Grinnellia americana, not of this specimenGrinnellia americana (C.Agardh) Harv.1873LuskCotuit Port
A photograph of the species Sphacelaria cirrosa, not of this specimenSphacelaria cirrosa (Roth) C.Agardh1873LuskCotuit Port
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1874Collector(s): William BrewsterOsterville
A photograph of the species Amphitrite ornata, not of this specimenAmphitrite ornata (Leidy, 1855)1875Verrill, A. E.; Merriam, C. H.Barnstable
A photograph of the species Ampithoe rubricata, not of this specimenAmpithoe rubricata (Montagu, 1808)1875U.S. Fish CommissionBarnstable
A photograph of the species Aplidium constellatum, not of this specimenAplidium constellatum (Verrill, 1871)1875Verrill, A. E.; Merriam, C. H.Barnstable

All 3,141 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cobbs Village: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hyannis PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hyannis Sand and Gravel IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Barnstable 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
Barnstable0.7 miles34
Cummaquid1.1 miles34
Yarmouth Station1.9 miles34
Yarmouth Port2.3 miles31
Yarmouth3.3 miles31
Hyannis3.9 miles34
North Dennis4.3 miles31
West Barnstable4.4 miles34

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 Q122592374The 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 615689. 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.