Hyannis, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1888 1994

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 19 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Municipal Group Historic Districtlisted 1987 · 0.1 miles away
• Canary-Hartnett Houselisted 1987 · 0.2 miles away
• Building at 237-239 Main Streetlisted 1987 · 0.2 miles away
• Capt. Rodney J. Baxter Houselisted 1987 · 0.2 miles away
• Pleasant-School Street Historic Districtlisted 1987 · 0.3 miles away
• Capt. Sylvester Baxter Houselisted 1987 · 0.3 miles away
• Crowell-Smith Houselisted 1987 · 0.4 miles away
• Capt. William Hallett Houselisted 1987 · 0.4 miles away
• Dr. Edward Francis Gleason Houselisted 1987 · 0.4 miles away
• S. Alexander Hinckley Houselisted 1987 · 0.5 miles away
• Seth Hallett Houselisted 1987 · 0.5 miles away
• Building at 600 Main Streetlisted 1987 · 0.5 miles away

Every listing in Barnstable County

Businesses named in the fire insurance atlases 12 records

• Congregational ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1906 to 1912
• First Baptist ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1912 to 1924
• Aberdeen Hall, Summer Hotel, - 9Hotel, in the atlas of 1919
• Depot, see CentreDepot, in the atlas of 1924
• Gables, The, Smmmer Hotel, 8Hotel, in the atlas of 1919
• High SchoolSchool, in the atlas of 1912
• Old Mill TavernMill, in the atlas of 1924
• Paint ShopShop, in the atlas of 1901
• Patriot, PrintingPrinting, in the atlas of 1912
• Ryders, Auto & Carriage Painting, 5Carriage Shop, in the atlas of 1919
• St. Francis Catholic ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1906
• State Normal SchoolSchool, in the atlas of 1912

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.

• 1888 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1942 USGS Cape Cod Bay quadrangle1:125000
• 1942 USGS Hyannis quadrangle1:31680, 4 printings
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1948 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Hyannis quadrangle1:31680
• 1950 USGS Hyannis quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Hyannis quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1974 USGS Hyannis quadrangle1:25000
• 1974 USGS Hyannis quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Hyannis quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Hyannis between 2003 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Cummaquid
• Hyannis Port
• Barnstable
• Cobbs Village
• Hyannis Park
• Yarmouth Station

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,009 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hyannis between 1866 and 1975: 1,151 Animalia, 629 Plantae, 138 Fungi, 81 Chromista, 8 Protozoa, 1 Bacteria, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. R. Hodgdon, A. R. Hodgdon; H. K. Svenson;D. Conant;J. Wicks 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
	Aecidium Pers.	1900	Seymour, Arthur Bliss	near Shoot-flying Hill [sic; Shootflying Hill], Hyannis, Mass. [Massachusetts]
	Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.	1900	A. B. Seymour	Hyannis
	Uromyces lineolatus (Desm.) J.Schröt.	1900	W. G. Farlow
	Calidris alba (Pallas, 1764)	1866	not recorded	Cape Cod
	Ceramium diaphanum (Lightf.) Roth	1873	Lusk	Cotuit Port
	Ceramium rubrum C.Agardh	1873	Lusk	Cotuit Port
	Grinnellia americana (C.Agardh) Harv.	1873	Lusk	Cotuit Port
	Sphacelaria cirrosa (Roth) C.Agardh	1873	Lusk	Cotuit Port
	Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1874	Collector(s): William Brewster	Osterville
	Amphitrite ornata (Leidy, 1855)	1875	Verrill, A. E.; Merriam, C. H.	Barnstable
	Ampithoe rubricata (Montagu, 1808)	1875	U.S. Fish Commission	Barnstable
	Aplidium constellatum (Verrill, 1871)	1875	Verrill, A. E.; Merriam, C. H.	Barnstable

All 2,009 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hyannis: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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.

Every working recorded in Barnstable County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hyannis in 11 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flood, 1 lightning. 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.

Every storm recorded in Barnstable County

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 619333. 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.