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

Lands End, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Rockport town. It lies in ZIP code area 01966. It stands on Sawmill Brook. The Survey maps it on the Rockport quadrangle.

Lands End within Essex County

Then and now

1886 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lands End, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Lands End, surveyed 1886

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

15 since 2016

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Lands End between 2016 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 September 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
26 July 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlROCKPORT
16 June 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlROCKPORT
8 May 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,947 shown

Museums hold 3,947 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lands End between 1817 and 1975: 1,629 Animalia, 1,178 Plantae, 697 Fungi, 295 Chromista, 88 Protozoa, 46 Unrecorded, 14 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Perlmutter, A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour and F. C. Seymour 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 Caloplaca murorum Th.Fr.Caloplaca murorum Th.Fr.1900Clara E. Cummings
A photograph of the species Coluber constrictor, not of this specimenColuber constrictor constrictor Linnaeus, 17581817not recordedLoblolly Cove, Cape Ann
A photograph of the species Lecanora tartarea, not of this specimenLecanora tartarea (L.) Ach.1839E. TuckermanManchester
A photograph of the species Ochrolechia yasudae, not of this specimenOchrolechia yasudae Vainio1839Tuckerman, E.[USA] Manchester, Massachusetts.
A photograph of the species Splachnum ampullaceum, not of this specimenSplachnum ampullaceum Hedw.1843A. Gray; W. S. SullivantManchester
A photograph of the species Ceramium rubrum, not of this specimenCeramium rubrum C.Agardh1847N. PikeCape Ann
A photograph of the species Acolium tigillare, not of this specimenAcolium tigillare (Ach.) Gray1849s.leg.
A photograph of the species Arthonia E.Acharius, not of this specimenArthonia E.Acharius, 18061849Tuckerman Edward
A photograph of the species Arthonia spectabilis, not of this specimenArthonia spectabilis Flot.1849Edward TuckermanEssex
A photograph of the species Arthothelium spectabile, not of this specimenArthothelium spectabile A.Massal.1849William Oakes
A photograph of the species Cyphelium tigillare, not of this specimenCyphelium tigillare (Ach.) Ach.1849W. OakesEssex
Delesseria alata (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux1859R.H. WardCape Ann.

All 3,947 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Lands End: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, 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
John R MorseSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Johnson QuarryGranitePast Producer
Mc Niff-Dominic PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mcniff Co IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Morse PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rockport Quarries IncGranitePast ProducerGranite
Town of RockportGranitePast ProducerGranite
Town of Rockport QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Essex 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
Eden Square0.4 miles39
Stonehaven (historical)1.2 miles39
Rockport1.5 miles39
Bass Rocks2.6 miles38
Pigeon Cove2.9 miles39
East Gloucester3.3 miles27
Ocean View3.3 miles39
Five Pound Island3.4 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 616195. 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.