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

Manomet, Massachusetts

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Plymouth town. It lies in ZIP code area 02360. It stands on Manomet Brook. The Survey maps it on the Manomet quadrangle.

Manomet within Plymouth County

Then and now

1886 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Manomet, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Manomet, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

35 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

119 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Manomet between 2006 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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
Debris and open burning61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism17
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural1
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
6 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLYMOUTH
5 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLYMOUTH
23 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
20 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLYMOUTH
16 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLYMOUTH
14 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 4,333 shown

Museums hold 4,333 specimens collected within 10 miles of Manomet between 1816 and 1975: 3,813 Animalia, 306 Plantae, 107 Fungi, 102 Chromista, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by -- Russell, A. R. Stubbs, A.B. 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 Taphrina Fr., 1815Taphrina Fr., 18151900Seymour, Arthur BlissPlymouth Woods, Mass. [Massachusetts]
Specimen of Tolyposporium eriocauli G.P.ClintonTolyposporium eriocauli G.P.Clinton1900G.P. Clinton
Specimen of Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & SwingleUstilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle1900G. P. Clinton
A photograph of the species Sparganium L., not of this specimenSparganium L.1816Boott, J.W.Plymouth, Mass.ts.
A photograph of the species Juncus greenei, not of this specimenJuncus greenei Oakes & Tuck.1825W. OakesPlymouth
A photograph of the species Baptisia tinctoria, not of this specimenBaptisia tinctoria (L.) R.Br.1837J. Blake
A photograph of the species Myriophyllum humile, not of this specimenMyriophyllum humile (Raf.) Morong1838W Oakes
A photograph of the species Utricularia cornuta, not of this specimenUtricularia cornuta Michx.1840NonePlymouth
Carex stellata Mack.1842Collector unspecified[Half May Pond], Plymouth.
A photograph of the species Pseudevernia consocians, not of this specimenPseudevernia consocians (Vainio) Hale & W.L.Culb.1849-- RussellKingston
A photograph of the species Amaranthus hybridus, not of this specimenAmaranthus hybridus L.1855not recorded
Phylloporus rhodoxanthus (Schwein.) Bres.1899Dr. Hallock

All 4,333 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 Manomet: 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
Nevada Construction CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Plymouth Pit & Plant Wethers IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

Storms nearby

2 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Manomet in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2019Flash FloodManomet$70,000Heavy rain caused a road washout in the Pinehills section of Plymouth on Long Ridge Road near the intersection with Sacrifice Rock Road. Rainfall totals of 5.69 inches were reported by a ham radio spotter in Plymouth. The Plymouth Airport recorded 5.32 inches of rain in just six hours. Basement flooding was reported up to the furnace on Sandwich Street in Plymouth. A portion of Route 3A (State Road) was closed due to flooding. According to the Boston Globe, in Plymouth Harbor, an unoccupied boat sank in its mooring due to the weight of the water and several other vessels had to be pumped out. No injuries were reported.
August 2008HailManomet-Golfball to lime sized hail fell in the Cedarville section of Plymouth.

Every storm recorded in Plymouth 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
Manomet Heights0.8 miles35
Priscilla Beach0.9 miles35
White Horse Beach1.0 miles35
Manomet Bluffs1.0 miles35
Fishermans Landing1.3 miles35
Churchill Landing1.7 miles35
Cedar Bushes1.7 miles35
Manomet Beach2.5 miles35

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 616200. 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.