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

Marion, Massachusetts

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Marion town. It lies in ZIP code area 02738. It stands on Little Island. The Survey maps it on the Marion quadrangle.

Marion within Plymouth County

Then and now

1885 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Marion, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Marion, surveyed 1885

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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

First Universalist Church, Pleasant & Main Streets, Marion, Plymouth County, MA
First Universalist Church, Pleasant & Main Streets, Marion, Plymouth County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

71 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Marion between 2015 and 2020, burning about 21 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
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
27 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
9 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
8 August 2018Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 August 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
31 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
3 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 August 2017Debris and open burningunder 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 3,017 shown

Museums hold 3,017 specimens collected within 10 miles of Marion between 1824 and 1975: 1,198 Animalia, 840 Fungi, 809 Plantae, 130 Chromista, 33 Bacteria, 7 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. C. Mathieson, A. Clark 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 Gamochaeta purpurea, not of this specimenGamochaeta purpurea (L.) Cabrera1824T. A. Greene
A photograph of the species Lythrum salicaria, not of this specimenLythrum salicaria L.1831T. A. Greene
A photograph of the species Mentha aquatica, not of this specimenMentha aquatica L.1831Collector unknownNew Bedford. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Trypethelium virens, not of this specimenTrypethelium virens Tuck.1848ex herb. OakesNew Bedford.
A photograph of the species Endocarpon pusillum, not of this specimenEndocarpon pusillum Hedw.1858H. WilleyFort Phoenix. Fairhaven.
A photograph of the species Chilomycterus geometricus, not of this specimenChilomycterus geometricus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)1860unknownBuzzards Bay
A photograph of the species Menegazzia terebrata, not of this specimenMenegazzia terebrata (Hoffm.) A.Massal.1860H. WilleyNew Bedford
A photograph of the species Abrothallus parmeliarum, not of this specimenAbrothallus parmeliarum (Sommerf.) Nyl., 18691862Willey H.Weymouth, New Bedford
A photograph of the species Agyrium rufum, not of this specimenAgyrium rufum (Pers.) Fr.1862Willey HenryNew Bedford
Agapostemon sericeus (Förster, 1771)1899William WheelerNew Bedford
A photograph of the species Alosa aestivalis, not of this specimenAlosa aestivalis (Mitchill, 1814)1899B. Bean & V. EdwardsMassachusetts, Buzzards Bay
A photograph of the species Aluterus schoepfii, not of this specimenAluterus schoepfii (Walbaum, 1792)1899not recordedWest Falmouth, Massachusetts

All 3,017 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Marion: 5 past producers. None of them 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
Albert WintersSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Marion PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rochester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wareham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Whitehead Brothers IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

Storms nearby

11 since 2007

The National Weather Service names Marion in 11 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 6 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
April 2017LightningMarion$3,000Lightning struck a house on Main Street, causing damage to the electrical system. Some smoke was observed in the house.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindMarion$2,000A tree downed by thunderstorm winds blocked a road in Marion. In addition, large branches were downed in Rochester on New Bedford Road.
August 2008HailMarion$500Half-dollar sized hail fell at the intersection of Interstate 195 and Route 105. Window damage to a taxi was reported with this hail.
August 2024HailMarion-In Marion, 1.5 inch hail fell.
July 2019FloodEast Marion-In Marion, County Road was flooded and impassable.
September 2015FloodMarion-Portions of Route 6 and Spring Street were closed due to flooding.
November 2014FloodMarion-The right lane of Route 6 westbound near Barnacle Road was flooded.
September 2013FloodEast Marion-One of the westbound lanes of Route 6 was flooded and impassable near Converse Road.
May 2013FloodMarion-Spring Street near the Taber Library was flooded and almost impassable.
June 2013FloodMarion-Two to five inches of rain fell across Plymouth County. Spring Street was flooded with two to three feet of water from the fire station to the Sippican School.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMarion-Wires down on Point Road.

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
East Marion1.3 miles39
Harbor Beach2.1 miles35
Piney Point Beach2.2 miles39
Alms House2.2 miles35
Briarwood Beach2.8 miles39
Holly Woods2.8 miles35
Weweantic2.9 miles39
Cannonville3.3 miles35

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 614841. 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.