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

Lobsterville, Massachusetts

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Aquinnah town. It lies in ZIP code area 02535. It stands on Edys Island. The Survey maps it on the Squibnocket quadrangle.

Lobsterville within Dukes County

Then and now

1887 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lobsterville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Lobsterville, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

33 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

1 since 2018

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lobsterville between 2018 and 2018, burning about 0 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning1

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
21 April 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 Dukes County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 6,078 shown

Museums hold 6,078 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lobsterville between 1828 and 1975: 4,168 Animalia, 1,330 Plantae, 298 Chromista, 163 Unrecorded, 78 Fungi, 38 Bacteria, 3 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A AND P STARRETT, A., A. B. Hervey 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
A photograph of the species Tipularia discolor, not of this specimenTipularia discolor (Pursh) Nutt.1828OakesMartha's Vineyard
A photograph of the species Apeltes quadracus, not of this specimenApeltes quadracus (Mitchill, 1815)1860D. JordanPenikese Islands
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821860unknownPenikese Island
A photograph of the species Gasterosteus aculeatus, not of this specimenGasterosteus aculeatus Linnaeus, 17581860D. JordanPenikese Islands
A photograph of the species Menidia menidia, not of this specimenMenidia menidia (Linnaeus, 1766)1860unknownPenikese Island
A photograph of the species Acteocina canaliculata, not of this specimenActeocina canaliculata (Say, 1826)1871United States Fish CommissionOff Gay Head
A photograph of the species Actinococcus subcutaneus, not of this specimenActinococcus subcutaneus (Lyngbye ex Hornemann) Rosenvinge1871W. G. FarlowGay Head
A photograph of the species Alitta succinea, not of this specimenAlitta succinea (Leuckart, 1847)1871U.S. Fish CommissionNaushon Island
A photograph of the species Anguilla rostrata, not of this specimenAnguilla rostrata (Lesueur, 1817)1871U.S. Fish CommissionVineyard Sound
A photograph of the species Centropristis striata, not of this specimenCentropristis striata (Linnaeus, 1758)1899B. BeanMenemsha Bight
A photograph of the species Echinorhynchus Zoega, not of this specimenEchinorhynchus Zoega, 17761899E. LintonMartha's Vineyard
A photograph of the species Sterna dougallii, not of this specimenSterna dougallii dougallii Montagu, 18131899Doe, C EDukes County

All 6,078 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
Gay Head1.0 miles33
Indian Lands1.5 miles33
Menemsha1.8 miles33
Nashaquitsa2.5 miles33
Chilmark2.8 miles33
Squibnocket3.2 miles33
Nabs Corner6.3 miles34
West Tisbury6.9 miles33

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.

Wikidata item Q122559432The 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 615195. 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.