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Hyannis, Massachusetts

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Barnstable Town City. It lies in ZIP code area 02601. It stands on Snows Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hyannis quadrangle. 14,089 people lived here at the 2010 count.

Hyannis within Barnstable County

Then and now

1888 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Hyannis, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Hyannis, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

34 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

151 since 2003

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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Debris and open burning41
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control3126
6 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control3119
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control3117
5 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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 2,009 shown

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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Aecidium Pers.Aecidium Pers.1900Seymour, Arthur Blissnear Shoot-flying Hill [sic; Shootflying Hill], Hyannis, Mass. [Massachusetts]
Specimen of Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.1900A. B. SeymourHyannis
Specimen of Uromyces lineolatus (Desm.) J.Schröt.Uromyces lineolatus (Desm.) J.Schröt.1900W. G. Farlow
A photograph of the species Calidris alba, not of this specimenCalidris alba (Pallas, 1764)1866not recordedCape Cod
Ceramium diaphanum (Lightf.) Roth1873LuskCotuit Port
A photograph of the species Ceramium rubrum, not of this specimenCeramium rubrum C.Agardh1873LuskCotuit Port
A photograph of the species Grinnellia americana, not of this specimenGrinnellia americana (C.Agardh) Harv.1873LuskCotuit Port
A photograph of the species Sphacelaria cirrosa, not of this specimenSphacelaria cirrosa (Roth) C.Agardh1873LuskCotuit Port
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1874Collector(s): William BrewsterOsterville
A photograph of the species Amphitrite ornata, not of this specimenAmphitrite ornata (Leidy, 1855)1875Verrill, A. E.; Merriam, C. H.Barnstable
A photograph of the species Ampithoe rubricata, not of this specimenAmpithoe rubricata (Montagu, 1808)1875U.S. Fish CommissionBarnstable
A photograph of the species Aplidium constellatum, not of this specimenAplidium constellatum (Verrill, 1871)1875Verrill, A. E.; Merriam, C. H.Barnstable

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

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hyannis PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hyannis Sand and Gravel IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Barnstable County

Storms nearby

11 since 2001

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHyannis$30,000Multiple wires were downed on Route 28 near the rotary, blocking the road. Numerous trees were downed on Winter Street.
July 2004LightningHyannis$20,000no account filed
November 2014FloodHyannis$10,000Two cars were stuck in flood waters on Megan Road in Hyannis.
January 2018Thunderstorm WindHyannis$5,000At 330 PM EST, a tree was reported down on a house on Main Street in Barnstable.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHyannis$5,000Wires on Sea Street were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindHyannis$500In Hyannis, a tree was down on Gosnold Street at Old Colony Road.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindHyannis-In Hyannis, a mesonet site recorded a wind gust to 63 mph at 1150 AM EST.
July 2017FloodHyannis-At 2 PM EST, Center Street in Hyannis was reported flooded and impassable. AT 337 PM EST, the Duck Inn Pub in Hyannis reported several feet of water in the pub. At Automated Surface Observation System (ASOS) at Barnstable Municipal Airport reported rainfall of 3.09 inches.
July 2009HailHyannis-no account filed
June 2008HailHyannis-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindHyannis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barnstable 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
Hyannis Park0.9 miles34
Hyannis Port1.5 miles34
Colonial Acres1.5 miles34
Englewood2.0 miles31
West Yarmouth2.2 miles31
West Hyannisport2.3 miles34
Craigville2.9 miles34
Barnstable3.4 miles34

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 HyannisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1015021The 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 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.