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

Egypt Beach, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It lies in ZIP code area 02066. The Survey maps it on the Scituate quadrangle.

Egypt Beach within Suffolk County

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 Egypt Beach, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Egypt Beach, surveyed 1885

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

1 since 2016

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Egypt Beach between 2016 and 2016, burning about 0 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHANOVER

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 927 shown

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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Cladonia rangiferina, not of this specimenCladonia rangiferina (L.) Weber1844J. L. RussellHingham
A photograph of the species Lopadium disciforme, not of this specimenLopadium disciforme (Flot.) Kullh.1848J. L. Russell
A photograph of the species Cladonia gracilis, not of this specimenCladonia gracilis (L.) Willd.1849J. L. RussellHingham
A photograph of the species Spyridia filamentosa, not of this specimenSpyridia filamentosa (Wulfen) Harv.1849see Collection Note
A photograph of the species Frullania asagrayana, not of this specimenFrullania asagrayana Mont.1850J. L. Russell
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1852S. BairdHingham Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Coenogonium luteum, not of this specimenCoenogonium luteum (Dicks.) Kalb & Lücking1853RussellHingham
Convolvulaceae1866Atwater, Mrs. S. T.Nantasket beach
A photograph of the species Smilax rotundifolia, not of this specimenSmilax rotundifolia L.1866not recordednear Boston. Cohasset Beach
Boletus parasiticus Bull.1900Mrs. H. PageCohassett
A photograph of the species Dicranum scoparium, not of this specimenDicranum scoparium Hedw.1900A. B. SeymourHingham
Carex lurida Wahlenb.1928L. Griscom, SvensonCohasset.

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

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
Fort Warren11.9 miles41
Fort Dawes14.4 miles41
Point Shirley15.4 miles41
Cottage Hill15.7 miles41
Winthrop Beach16.3 miles43
Fort Independence16.3 miles46
Cottage Park16.5 miles41
Winthrop16.5 miles43

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 Q122541207The 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 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.