Cohasset, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1885 1984

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 7 records

• Cohasset Central Cemeterylisted 2002
• Cohasset Common Historic Districtlisted 1996
• Government Island Historic Districtlisted 1994
• Josephine M. Hagerty Houselisted 1997
• Caleb Lothrop Houselisted 1976
• Pratt Historic Buildinglisted 2006
• Capt. John Wilson House and Bates Ship Chandlerylisted 2002

Surveyed buildings and structures 5 records

• Cushing-Nichols House, Cohassetfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• First Parish Meetinghouse, Cohasset Common, Cohassetfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Fitch House, Cohassetfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Reverend Nehemiah Hobart House, Cohassetfederal building survey, 10 photographs
• Shaw-Souther House, Highland Avenue, Cohassetfederal building survey, 17 photographs

Businesses named in the fire insurance atlases 4 records

• Ongood SchoolSchool, in the atlas of 1928 to 1963
• Eldridge, H. H., Boat Shop, 1Shop, in the atlas of 1915
• Ellsworth, H. H. Boat ShopShop, in the atlas of 1928
• Ripley Road SchoolSchool, in the atlas of 1928

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.

• 1885 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1920 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1974 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:25000
• 1974 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings

History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Cohasset Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Cohasset between 2015 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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:

• Black Rock
• Beechwood
• North Cohasset
• Reeds Corner
• East Weymouth
• Idlewell

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,856 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cohasset between 1836 and 1975: 1,892 Plantae, 350 Chromista, 294 Animalia, 243 Fungi, 58 Unrecorded, 13 Protozoa, 6 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Loveridge, A. B. Seymour, A. C. Mathieson 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
	Carex trisperma Dewey	1836	J. W. Robbins
	Salicornia bigelovii Torr.	1840	Welle, J.	Hull
	Salsola kali L.	1840	Welle, J.	Hull
	Cladonia rangiferina (L.) Weber	1844	J. L. Russell	Hingham
	Lopadium disciforme (Flot.) Kullh.	1848	J. L. Russell
	Cladonia gracilis (L.) Willd.	1849	J. L. Russell	Hingham
	Spyridia filamentosa (Wulfen) Harv.	1849	see Collection Note
	Frullania asagrayana Mont.	1850	J. L. Russell
	Hypnum curvifolium Hedw.	1851	W. L. Russell	Hingham
	Lobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm.	1851	J. L. Russell
	Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)	1852	S. Baird	Hingham Massachusetts
	Buellia alboatra (Hoffm.) Th.Fr.	1852	Edward Tuckerman

All 2,856 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cohasset: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Norfolk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cohasset in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 Norfolk County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 613802. 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.