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

Cuttyhunk, Massachusetts

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Gosnold town. It lies in ZIP code area 02713. It stands on Slates Island. The Survey maps it on the Cuttyhunk quadrangle.

Cuttyhunk within Dukes County

Then and now

1887 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cuttyhunk, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Cuttyhunk, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

30 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 5,518 shown

Museums hold 5,518 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cuttyhunk between 1860 and 1975: 4,015 Animalia, 1,056 Plantae, 257 Chromista, 104 Unrecorded, 51 Fungi, 32 Bacteria, 3 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A AND P STARRETT, A., 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Apeltes quadracus, not of this specimenApeltes quadracus (Mitchill, 1815)1860D. JordanPenikese Islands
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821860unknownPenikese Island
A photograph of the species Gasterosteus aculeatus, not of this specimenGasterosteus aculeatus Linnaeus, 17581860D. JordanPenikese Islands
A photograph of the species Menidia menidia, not of this specimenMenidia menidia (Linnaeus, 1766)1860unknownPenikese Island
A photograph of the species Pandion haliaetus, not of this specimenPandion haliaetus (Linnaeus, 1758)1860Alan PooleWestport, Westport River, Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary
A photograph of the species Acteocina canaliculata, not of this specimenActeocina canaliculata (Say, 1826)1871United States Fish CommissionOff Gay Head
A photograph of the species Actinococcus subcutaneus, not of this specimenActinococcus subcutaneus (Lyngbye ex Hornemann) Rosenvinge1871W. G. FarlowGay Head
A photograph of the species Actinothoe modesta, not of this specimenActinothoe modesta (Verrill, 1866)1871United States Fish CommissionVineyard Sound
A photograph of the species Alitta succinea, not of this specimenAlitta succinea (Leuckart, 1847)1871U.S. Fish CommissionNaushon Island
A photograph of the species Centropristis striata, not of this specimenCentropristis striata (Linnaeus, 1758)1899B. BeanMenemsha Bight
A photograph of the species Sterna dougallii, not of this specimenSterna dougallii dougallii Montagu, 18131899Collector(s): C. E. DoePenikese Island
A photograph of the species Chorthippus curtipennis, not of this specimenChorthippus curtipennis (Harris, 1835)1900unknownPenikese Island

All 5,518 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Gay Head8.1 miles33
Indian Lands8.5 miles33
Lobsterville8.5 miles33
Menemsha10.0 miles33
Nashaquitsa10.9 miles33
Naushon Station11.0 miles32
Chilmark11.2 miles33
Squibnocket11.4 miles33

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 Q122555725The 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 614522. 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.

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.