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East Wareham, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Wareham town. It lies in ZIP code area 02538. It stands on Brandy Hill. The Survey maps it on the Wareham quadrangle.

East Wareham 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 Wareham, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of East Wareham, 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

178 since 2001

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of East Wareham between 2001 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 9 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 burning61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Smoking22
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
7 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 September 2002Smokingunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
4 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
3 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,480 shown

Museums hold 2,480 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Wareham between 1816 and 1975: 1,302 Animalia, 731 Plantae, 349 Fungi, 84 Chromista, 10 Bacteria, 4 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
Specimen of Tolyposporium eriocauli G.P.ClintonTolyposporium eriocauli G.P.Clinton1900G.P. Clinton
Specimen of Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & SwingleUstilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle1900G. P. Clinton
A photograph of the species Cistus L., not of this specimenCistus L.1816Boott, F.M.Sandwich, Massts. [=Sandwich, Massachusetts].
Lythraceae1816Boott, J.W.Sandwich, Mass'ts. | [On reverse of sheet:] From Sandwich, Mass'ts U.S.A. [=From Sandwich, Massachusetts, U.S.A.]
A photograph of the species Malva neglecta, not of this specimenMalva neglecta Wallr.1816Boott, J.W.Sandwich. Mass.tts.
A photograph of the species Juncus greenei, not of this specimenJuncus greenei Oakes & Tuck.1825W. OakesPlymouth
A photograph of the species Baptisia tinctoria, not of this specimenBaptisia tinctoria (L.) R.Br.1837J. Blake
A photograph of the species Amaranthus hybridus, not of this specimenAmaranthus hybridus L.1855not recorded
A photograph of the species Clethra alnifolia, not of this specimenClethra alnifolia L.1855not recorded
A photograph of the species Euthamia lanceolata, not of this specimenEuthamia lanceolata (L.) G.L.Nesom1855not recorded
Cortinarius collinitus (Sow. ex Fr.) Fr.1899H. WebsterWareham
Euspilotus conformis (J.E.LeConte, 1845)1899not recordedMarion

All 2,480 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of East Wareham: 3 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
Charge Pond Road Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Marion PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Whitehead Brothers IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

Storms nearby

3 since 2012

The National Weather Service names East Wareham in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash 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
October 2012Thunderstorm WindEast Wareham$100,000A microburst occurred in Wareham with a thunderstorm associated with a band from superstorm Sandy. A swath of 60 to 70 mph wind gusts occurred with pockets of 80 to 90 mph gusts. The hardest hit locations in Wareham were Swifts Beach, Pinehurst, and Onset Bay Marina. The survey team determined that a damage area of 2 miles in length and 2 miles in width in this area. Based on radar signatures and eyewitness accounts, thunderstorm wind damage began in Falmouth around 6:25PM, then became more intense over Wareham around 6:40PM. The survey team determined that approximately 100 trees were significantly damaged or knocked down in Wareham, with many bringing down wires. The initial downdraft occurred in Swifts Beach then headed north-northeast over Pinehurst toward Narrows Road. In the Swifts Beach area there were numerous downed trees with one tree impaling the roof of a house on Sherman Street. Other points of interest were located on Pilgram Avenue, Judson Street, Pine Street, and Swifts Beach Road. Trees were also downed near the fire department on Main Street in downtown Wareham. Trees were also downed on Church Avenue at t he Redwood Park Elderly Complex. In the Pinehurst area of Wareham, downed trees were evident on Franconia Avenue and Pinehurst Drive. On Narrows Road, a couple of trees were knocked down across the road. In the Onset Bay Marina area, boats that were stored on a 3 story tier were tilted in their racks. A sailboat in the marina was tilted 90 degrees with the mast parallel with the water for about 2 minutes before righting itself. Additionally, 2 boats of unknown size were reportedly sunk in the downdraft. In the Nanumett Heights section of Point Independence (in Onset), significant tree damage was confirmed on Prospect and Webster Streets. The survey team and eyewitness accounts observed much of the tree damage to be oriented in a south to north direction, confirming a microburst.
July 2014Flash FloodEast Wareham$25,000In Wareham, a car was stuck in flood waters on the Cranberry Highway. A portion of Long Pond Road in Plymouth was flooded with over one foot of water near Gunners Exchange Road.
May 2013FloodEast Wareham-A foot of water flooded Route 28 in Wareham near the Cranberry Plaza Shopping Center.

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
Onset Station0.2 miles39
Riverside1.1 miles39
Onset1.4 miles39
Parkwood Beach1.6 miles39
Point Independence1.7 miles39
Oakdale1.8 miles39
Pinehurst Beach2.1 miles39
Indian Heights2.3 miles39

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 Q122570425The 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 615037. 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.