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Duxbury, Massachusetts

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Duxbury town. It lies in ZIP code area 02332. It stands on Long Point. The Survey maps it on the Duxbury quadrangle. 1,896 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Duxbury within Plymouth County

Population over time

2 figures

Duxbury grew from 1,802 to 1,896 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,802
20201,896+94 (+5%)

Then and now

1885 to 1984

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.

Topographic sheet of Duxbury, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Duxbury, surveyed 1885

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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

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.

U.S. Frigate Constitution, Cannon, Duxbury, Plymouth County, MA
U.S. Frigate Constitution, Cannon, Duxbury, Plymouth County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

164 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Duxbury between 2015 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning98
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMARSHFIELD
6 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMARSHFIELD
6 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMARSHFIELD
5 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMARSHFIELD
4 September 2018Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMARSHFIELD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,479 shown

Museums hold 1,479 specimens collected within 10 miles of Duxbury between 1816 and 1975: 950 Animalia, 251 Plantae, 145 Fungi, 105 Unrecorded, 28 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by -- Russell, 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
Specimen of Taphrina Fr., 1815Taphrina Fr., 18151900Seymour, Arthur BlissPlymouth Woods, Mass. [Massachusetts]
Specimen of Trientalis borealis Raf.Trientalis borealis Raf.1900not recorded
A photograph of the species Sparganium L., not of this specimenSparganium L.1816Boott, J.W.Plymouth, Mass.ts.
A photograph of the species Myriophyllum humile, not of this specimenMyriophyllum humile (Raf.) Morong1838W Oakes
A photograph of the species Utricularia cornuta, not of this specimenUtricularia cornuta Michx.1840NonePlymouth
Carex stellata Mack.1842Collector unspecified[Half May Pond], Plymouth.
A photograph of the species Pseudevernia consocians, not of this specimenPseudevernia consocians (Vainio) Hale & W.L.Culb.1849-- RussellKingston
A photograph of the species Baptisia tinctoria, not of this specimenBaptisia tinctoria (L.) R.Br.1853not recorded
A photograph of the species Coreopsis rosea, not of this specimenCoreopsis rosea Nutt.1855J. Blake
A photograph of the species Ionactis linariifolia, not of this specimenIonactis linariifolia (L.) Greene1855not recorded
Phylloporus rhodoxanthus (Schwein.) Bres.1899Dr. Hallock
Russula crustosa Peck, 18871899Dr. Hallock

All 1,479 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 Duxbury: 2 past producers. None of them 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
South River Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
South River Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

Storms nearby

14 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Duxbury in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2011Thunderstorm WindDuxbury$30,000Multiple trees on Standish Road and Chestnut Street were downed by thunderstorm winds. One of these trees fell onto a house.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindDuxbury$10,000A tree was downed onto a house. Wires were downed onto a school bus on Evergreen Street in Duxbury.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindDuxbury$10,000Trees on Franklin and Union Streets were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2022LightningDuxbury$5,000In Duxbury, a lightning strike started a house fire.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindNorth Duxbury$5,000A tree was downed onto a house in Marshfield.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindDuxbury$5,000A tree on Spruce Lane was downed onto wires by thunderstorm winds.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWest Duxbury$1,000In Pembroke several trees were downed.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWest Duxbury$500In Duxbury, a tree was down on Birch St one half mile from Rt 53.
May 2009HailDuxbury-Half dollar size hail fell on Route 3 near Wellington Lane.
May 2009HailDuxbury-Two inch diameter hail fell along Route 3 near Wellington Lane.
May 2009HailDuxbury-Quarter to golfball sized hail fell in Duxbury.
August 2003HailDuxbury-no account filed
May 2000LightningDuxbury-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindDuxbury-no account filed

Every storm 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
Camp Chappa Challa0.7 miles34
Millbrook0.9 miles34
South Duxbury1.4 miles34
Cox Corner1.6 miles34
Baileys Corner1.8 miles34
Cedar Crest2.4 miles34
Miles Standish Park2.6 miles34
Green Harbor2.8 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.

Wikipedia article on DuxburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5317650The 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 615025. 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.