Marshfield, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1885 1984

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.

• 1885 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:62500
• 1941 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:31680
• 1947 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:25000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:24000
• 1974 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:24000
• 1974 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Marshfield between 2015 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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.

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:

• Camp Chappa Challa
• Cox Corner
• Duxbury
• East Pembroke
• Millbrook
• North Duxbury

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Museums hold 1,135 specimens collected within 10 miles of Marshfield between 1816 and 1975: 509 Animalia, 331 Plantae, 156 Fungi, 112 Unrecorded, 27 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by -- Russell, A., 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Taphrina Fr., 1815	1900	Seymour, Arthur Bliss	Plymouth Woods, Mass. [Massachusetts]
	Trientalis borealis Raf.	1900	not recorded
	Sparganium L.	1816	Boott, J.W.	Plymouth, Mass.ts.
	Myriophyllum humile (Raf.) Morong	1838	W Oakes
	Utricularia cornuta Michx.	1840	None	Plymouth
	Carex stellata Mack.	1842	Collector unspecified	[Half May Pond], Plymouth.
	Pseudevernia consocians (Vainio) Hale & W.L.Culb.	1849	-- Russell	Kingston
	Baptisia tinctoria (L.) R.Br.	1853	not recorded
	Coreopsis rosea Nutt.	1855	J. Blake
	Ionactis linariifolia (L.) Greene	1855	not recorded
	Cyperus lupulinus subsp. macilentus (Fernald) Marcks	1899	E. F. Williams
	Lolium multiflorum Lam.	1899	not recorded

All 1,135 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Marshfield: 4 past producers, 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.

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

The National Weather Service names Marshfield in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2004: 2 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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.

Every storm recorded in Plymouth County

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 615217. 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.