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

Gray Gables, Massachusetts

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bourne town. It lies in ZIP code area 02532. It stands on Monument River (historical). The Survey maps it on the Pocasset quadrangle.

Gray Gables within Barnstable 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 Gray Gables, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Gray Gables, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

40 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

181 since 2001

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Gray Gables between 2001 and 2020, burning about 240 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 19 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined69
Debris and open burning34
Smoking28
Arson/incendiarism19
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony6

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
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot 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 Barnstable County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,100 shown

Museums hold 2,100 specimens collected within 10 miles of Gray Gables between 1816 and 1975: 1,081 Animalia, 576 Plantae, 353 Fungi, 73 Chromista, 11 Bacteria, 4 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. H. Moore, A. Humes 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 Chilomycterus geometricus, not of this specimenChilomycterus geometricus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)1860unknownBuzzards Bay
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 Polysiphonia urceolata, not of this specimenPolysiphonia urceolata (Lightfoot ex Dillwyn) Greville1875B. E. LivingstonWoods Hole, Butlers Point
A photograph of the species Spirula spirula, not of this specimenSpirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758)1875United States Fish CommissionNobska Beach
A photograph of the species Tringa solitaria, not of this specimenTringa solitaria solitaria A.Wilson, 18131878Newell A. EddyNorth Falmouth

All 2,100 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
Buzzards Bay0.8 miles40
Monument Beach1.1 miles40
Bourne1.3 miles40
Bourne Corners1.4 miles39
Tahanto Beach2.3 miles40
North Pocasset2.7 miles40
Pocasset Station2.8 miles40
Barlows Landing2.9 miles39

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 616403. 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.