Egypt Beach, Massachusetts

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.

1885 1984

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.

• 1885 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
• 1918 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1935 USGS Scituate quadrangle1:24000
• 1940 USGS Scituate quadrangle1:31680, 4 printings
• 1947 USGS Scituate quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Scituate quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1974 USGS Scituate quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1974 USGS Scituate quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Scituate quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Scituate quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Egypt Beach between 2015 and 2017, burning about 15 acres in total. 4 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 927 specimens collected within 10 miles of Egypt Beach between 1844 and 1973: 612 Plantae, 146 Animalia, 72 Chromista, 55 Fungi, 36 Unrecorded, 6 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Loveridge, A. B. Seymour, 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Cladonia rangiferina (L.) Weber	1844	J. L. Russell	Hingham
	Lopadium disciforme (Flot.) Kullh.	1848	J. L. Russell
	Cladonia gracilis (L.) Willd.	1849	J. L. Russell	Hingham
	Spyridia filamentosa (Wulfen) Harv.	1849	see Collection Note
	Frullania asagrayana Mont.	1850	J. L. Russell
	Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)	1852	S. Baird	Hingham Massachusetts
	Coenogonium luteum (Dicks.) Kalb & Lücking	1853	Russell	Hingham
	Convolvulaceae	1866	Atwater, Mrs. S. T.	Nantasket beach
	Smilax rotundifolia L.	1866	not recorded	near Boston. Cohasset Beach
	Boletus parasiticus Bull.	1900	Mrs. H. Page	Cohassett
	Dicranum scoparium Hedw.	1900	A. B. Seymour	Hingham
	Carex lurida Wahlenb.	1928	L. Griscom, Svenson	Cohasset.

All 927 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 615041. 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.