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Edgartown, Massachusetts

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Edgartown town. It lies in ZIP code area 02539. It stands on Sheriffs Meadow. The Survey maps it on the Edgartown quadrangle. 5,168 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Edgartown within Dukes County

Population over time

2 figures

Edgartown grew from 4,067 to 5,168 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
20104,067
20205,168+1,101 (+27%)

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 Edgartown, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Edgartown, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

32 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

12 since 2018

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Edgartown between 2018 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Fireworks1

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 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
18 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
12 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 March 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 Dukes County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,747 shown

Museums hold 3,747 specimens collected within 10 miles of Edgartown between 1828 and 1975: 2,380 Animalia, 1,021 Plantae, 171 Chromista, 121 Unrecorded, 42 Fungi, 12 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A AND P STARRETT, A. B. Hervey, A. B. Seymour 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 Tipularia discolor, not of this specimenTipularia discolor (Pursh) Nutt.1828OakesMartha's Vineyard
A photograph of the species Fundulus heteroclitus, not of this specimenFundulus heteroclitus (Linnaeus, 1766)1871not recordedHolmes Hole
A photograph of the species Lomentaria orcadensis, not of this specimenLomentaria orcadensis (Harvey) F.S.Collins ex W.R.Taylor1871W. G. FarlowMartha's Vineyard
A photograph of the species Menidia menidia, not of this specimenMenidia menidia (Linnaeus, 1766)1871not recordedHolmes Hole, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
A photograph of the species Ceramium fastigiatum, not of this specimenCeramium fastigiatum Harvey1874Lusk
A photograph of the species Hydrocotyle umbellata, not of this specimenHydrocotyle umbellata L.1874F. C. CurticeMartha's Vineyard
A photograph of the species Ilex glabra, not of this specimenIlex glabra (L.) A.Gray1874F. C. CurticeMartha's Vineyard
A photograph of the species Ptilimnium capillaceum, not of this specimenPtilimnium capillaceum (Michx.) Raf.1874Francis H. SnowMarthas Vinyard
A photograph of the species Ahnfeltia plicata, not of this specimenAhnfeltia plicata (Huds.) Fr.1875D. C. EatonMartha's Vineyard
A photograph of the species Alosa pseudoharengus, not of this specimenAlosa pseudoharengus (Wilson, 1811)1899not recordedMassachusetts, Katama Bay near Edgartown
A photograph of the species Centropristis striata, not of this specimenCentropristis striata (Linnaeus, 1758)1899B. BeanMartha's Vineyard opposite Woods Hole
A photograph of the species Cepaea hortensis, not of this specimenCepaea hortensis (O.F.Müller, 1774)1899Reid, Rev G D Prime, HenryMartha's Vineyard, Oak Bluffs

All 3,747 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Edgartown: 1 past producer. 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
Grant Brothers Inc Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Dukes County

Storms nearby

7 since 2000

The National Weather Service names Edgartown in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 hail. 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 2015FloodEdgartown$5,000Beach Road and Main Street were closed in Edgartown due to flooding. In Vineyard Haven, a car was stuck in flood waters on Water Street near the Black Dog bakery. The bakery itself was flooded with a foot of water. Circuit Avenue in Oak Bluffs was flooded and impassable. In West Tisbury, Beach Road was flooded and impassable in the area of the gas tanks.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindEdgartown$5,000Two trees on Davis Lane were downed by thunderstorm winds and blocked the road.
November 2021Thunderstorm WindEdgartown$300Amateur radio operators reported two mesonet wind gust observations from Edgartown...58 mph at Cape Poge at 615 PM EST and 69 mph at Chappy Ferry Point. The Edgartown Police reported half of a tree down on School Street at 630 PM EST.
January 2018Thunderstorm WindEdgartown-At 335 PM EST, an amateur radio operator in Edgartown reported a wind gust to 58 mph.
November 2014FloodEdgartown-Church Street at Peases Point Way is closed due to flooding.
July 2009HailEdgartown-Penny to quarter size hail fell across Martha's Vineyard.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindEdgartown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dukes 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
Clevelandtown0.5 miles32
Chappaquiddick0.5 miles32
Katama2.1 miles32
Ocean Heights2.4 miles32
Jerneganville2.4 miles32
West Opening3.1 miles32
Wepua Point3.8 miles32
Hartsville4.2 miles32

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 EdgartownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q985233The 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 616509. 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.