Madaket, Massachusetts

Madaket grew from 236 to 377 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.

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.

1889 1994

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.

• 1889 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:125000
• 1945 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:31680
• 1945 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:31680
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1951 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:31680
• 1951 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:24000
• 1951 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:24000
• 1951 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:31680
• 1951 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:31680
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Martha's Vineyard quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Martha's Vineyard quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1889 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Madaket between 2004 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. 1 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.

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:

• Warren Landing
• Fishers Landing
• Cisco
• Head of Plains (historical)
• Long Josephs Point
• Maddequet (historical)

Every fire recorded in Nantucket County

Museums hold 3,720 specimens collected within 10 miles of Madaket between 1825 and 1974: 2,522 Plantae, 654 Animalia, 378 Fungi, 94 Chromista, 65 Unrecorded, 7 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A AND P STARRETT, A. B. Seymour, A. Hassall 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
	Anemone quinquefolia L.	1900	M. A. Day
	Rumex maritimus var. fueginus (Phil.) Dusén	1825	Collector unspecified	Martha's Vineyard. Block Id.
	Chrysopsis falcata (Pursh) Elliott	1827	F. A. Greene
	Platanthera flava (L.) Lindl.	1827	T. A. Greene	Nantucket.
	Desmodium rigidum (Elliott) DC.	1829	Oakes
	Ceramium cimbricum H.E.Petersen	1831	not recorded	Nantucket.
	Gloeosporium polygoni Dearn. & House	1836	Guba E. F.	Nantucket Co. Cultivated Fields on Hummock Rd.
	Chondria dasyphylla (Woodward) C.Agardh	1848	M. L. Owen
	Ludwigia palustris (L.) Elliott	1849	J. L. Russell
	Acer rubrum L.	1899	Nellie F. Flynn
	Aletris farinosa L.	1899	Flynn, N. F.	Nantucket
	Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.	1899	Nellie F. Flynn

All 3,720 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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 616708. 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.