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

East Marion, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Marion town. It lies in ZIP code area 02738. It stands on Gravel Island. The Survey maps it on the Onset quadrangle.

East Marion within Plymouth County

Then and now

1886 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of East Marion, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of East Marion, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

39 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

104 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of East Marion between 2015 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 1 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 burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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
27 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
9 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
8 August 2018Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 August 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
7 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
7 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
4 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,285 shown

Museums hold 2,285 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Marion between 1858 and 1975: 1,138 Animalia, 650 Plantae, 357 Fungi, 106 Chromista, 29 Bacteria, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. C. Mathieson, A. H. Moore 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 Endocarpon pusillum, not of this specimenEndocarpon pusillum Hedw.1858H. WilleyFort Phoenix. Fairhaven.
A photograph of the species Chilomycterus geometricus, not of this specimenChilomycterus geometricus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)1860unknownBuzzards Bay
A photograph of the species Eleocharis tuberculosa, not of this specimenEleocharis tuberculosa (Michx.) Roem. & Schult.1864W. Booth
A photograph of the species Pachyphiale fagicola, not of this specimenPachyphiale fagicola (Arnold) Zwackh1868H. WilleyFort Phoenix
A photograph of the species Griffithsia corallina, not of this specimenGriffithsia corallina C.Agardh1871W. G. FarlowBuzzards Bay
A photograph of the species Heterocrypta granulata, not of this specimenHeterocrypta granulata (Gibbes, 1850)1871J. HyattNear Sacconnesset Light Ship
A photograph of the species Gobiosoma bosc, not of this specimenGobiosoma bosc (Lacepède, 1800)1872V. Edwards & United States Bureau of FisheriesWareham River, Massachusetts.
A photograph of the species Opsanus tau, not of this specimenOpsanus tau (Linnaeus, 1766)1875not recordedCataimet, Massachusetts, Squateagus near Woods Hole
A photograph of the species Pandalus leptocerus, not of this specimenPandalus leptocerus S.I.Smith, 18811875United States Fish Commissionoff Martha's Vineyard, southwest ledge
A photograph of the species Alosa aestivalis, not of this specimenAlosa aestivalis (Mitchill, 1814)1899B. Bean & V. EdwardsMassachusetts, Buzzards Bay
A photograph of the species Aluterus schoepfii, not of this specimenAluterus schoepfii (Walbaum, 1792)1899not recordedWest Falmouth, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Anguilla rostrata, not of this specimenAnguilla rostrata (Lesueur, 1817)1899not recordedWest Falmouth

All 2,285 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of East Marion: 6 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
Albert WintersSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Charge Pond Road Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Marion PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rochester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wareham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Whitehead Brothers IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

Storms nearby

2 since 2013

The National Weather Service names East Marion in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 2 flood. 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 2019FloodEast Marion-In Marion, County Road was flooded and impassable.
September 2013FloodEast Marion-One of the westbound lanes of Route 6 was flooded and impassable near Converse Road.

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
Marion1.3 miles35
Piney Point Beach1.7 miles39
Weweantic1.7 miles39
Briarwood Beach1.7 miles39
Swifts Beach2.4 miles39
Hamilton Beach2.8 miles39
Pinehurst Beach3.0 miles39
Harbor Beach3.1 miles35

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 615517. 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.