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

Crow Point, Massachusetts

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Hingham town. It lies in ZIP code area 02043. It stands on Ragged Island. The Survey maps it on the Hull quadrangle.

Crow Point within Plymouth County

Then and now

1892 to 1997

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.

Topographic sheet of Crow Point, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Crow Point, surveyed 1892

Compare 1892 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

41 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

186 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Crow Point between 2015 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. None 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning71
Recreation and ceremony53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Smoking16
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWEYMOUTH
5 September 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlQUINCY
5 September 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWEYMOUTH
4 September 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHINGHAM
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHINGHAM
29 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWEYMOUTH
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHINGHAM
2 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHINGHAM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 5,381 shown

Museums hold 5,381 specimens collected within 10 miles of Crow Point between 1815 and 1975: 3,538 Plantae, 894 Animalia, 516 Fungi, 371 Chromista, 43 Unrecorded, 13 Protozoa, 6 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), A Loveridge, A Phelps Wyman 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 Pallavicinia lyellii (Hook.) GrayPallavicinia lyellii (Hook.) Gray1900Frad G. Floydedge of Tumble Pond, Stang Brook, Brook Reservation
A photograph of the species Ranunculus L., not of this specimenRanunculus L.1815not recordedThicket at South Boston.
Haloragaceae1824Boott, J.W.Near Boston.
A photograph of the species Desmodium Desv., not of this specimenDesmodium Desv.1829Boott, J.W.Boston.
A photograph of the species Cornus sericea, not of this specimenCornus sericea subsp. sericea1832Nathaniel T. KidderMilton, Brook Road
A photograph of the species Carex echinata, not of this specimenCarex echinata subsp. echinata1834not recorded
Ectocarpus confervoides Le Jol.1834S. DurkeeBoston Harbor
Acer nigrum F.Michx.1899Nathaniel T. KidderMilton, off Randolph Avenue
Andrena braccata Viereck, 19071899P.G. BolsterMilton
A photograph of the species Bombus affinis, not of this specimenBombus affinis Cresson, 18631899not recordedDorchester
A photograph of the species Carex pensylvanica, not of this specimenCarex pensylvanica Lam.1899J. Murdoch, Jr.Milton
A photograph of the species Carex stricta, not of this specimenCarex stricta Lam.1899J. Murdoch, Jr.Milton

All 5,381 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Crow Point: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
R D Margetts Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ernest Minelli Inc QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hingham PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Margetts QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Plymouth 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
Hingham1.4 miles38
West Hingham1.7 miles38
Fort Hill1.7 miles38
Nantasket Junction1.8 miles38
Kenberma1.9 miles39
Nantasket Beach1.9 miles39
Hingham Center2.1 miles38
Waveland2.2 miles41

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 614061. 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.