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Hull, Massachusetts

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Hull town. It lies in ZIP code area 02045. It stands on Inner Seal Rock. The Survey maps it on the Hull quadrangle. 10,072 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 49 feet above sea level.

Hull within Plymouth County

Population over time

2 figures

Hull fell from 10,293 to 10,072 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
201010,293
202010,072-221 (-2%)

Then and now

1892 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hull, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Hull, surveyed 1892

Compare 1892 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

41 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

94 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Hull between 2015 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning53
Recreation and ceremony16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking5
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlQUINCY
2 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHINGHAM
18 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHINGHAM
17 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
10 September 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlQUINCY
1 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHINGHAM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 5,673 shown

Museums hold 5,673 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hull between 1810 and 1975: 3,543 Plantae, 1,113 Animalia, 574 Fungi, 369 Chromista, 51 Unrecorded, 16 Protozoa, 7 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), A Loveridge, A Phelps Wyman 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 Pallavicinia lyellii (Hook.) GrayPallavicinia lyellii (Hook.) Gray1900Frad G. Floydedge of Tumble Pond, Stang Brook, Brook Reservation
A photograph of the species Thalictrum L., not of this specimenThalictrum L.1810Boott, J.W.Near Boston.
A photograph of the species Anemone L., not of this specimenAnemone L.1815Boott, J.Andover Turnpike, 7 miles from Boston.
Ericaceae1815BoottBoston, U.S.A.
A photograph of the species Limonium vulgare, not of this specimenLimonium vulgare Mill.1815not recordedOn Cragies Road [=near Cragies Bridge], 1 1/2 miles from Boston.
A photograph of the species Mollugo verticillata, not of this specimenMollugo verticillata L.1815Boott, F.M.B.Boston.
A photograph of the species Persicaria Mill., not of this specimenPersicaria (L.) Mill.1815Boott, J.W.Craigie's Road, 2 miles from Boston.
A photograph of the species Ranunculus L., not of this specimenRanunculus L.1815not recordedThicket at South Boston.
Acer nigrum F.Michx.1899Nathaniel T. KidderMilton, off Randolph Avenue
Agaricus brunnescens Peck1899Wells, C. G.East Cambridge
Andrena braccata Viereck, 19071899P.G. BolsterMilton
A photograph of the species Bombus affinis, not of this specimenBombus affinis Cresson, 18631899not recordedDorchester

All 5,673 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 Hull: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Hingham PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

Storms nearby

6 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Hull in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2006: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHull1 killedPeddocks Island
July 2006Thunderstorm WindHull$5,000no account filed
August 2005LightningHull$5,000no account filed
June 2006FloodHull$2,000no account filed
June 2000HailHull-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindHull-no account filed

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
Fort Revere0.3 miles41
Stony Beach0.5 miles41
Pemberton0.5 miles41
Fort Duvall0.6 miles41
Fort Andrews1.1 miles41
Windemere1.1 miles41
Allerton1.3 miles41
Bayside1.3 miles41

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 HullAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2414193The 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 614090. 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.