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Marstons Mills, Massachusetts

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Barnstable Town City. It lies in ZIP code area 02648. It stands on Marstons Mill River. The Survey maps it on the Sandwich quadrangle.

Marstons Mills within Barnstable County

Then and now

1888 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Marstons Mills, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Marstons Mills, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

34 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

121 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Marstons Mills between 2003 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Debris and open burning34
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking3

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control3126
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control3115
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control3109
6 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control3119
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control3117
5 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control2746
5 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control2742

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,165 shown

Museums hold 2,165 specimens collected within 10 miles of Marstons Mills between 1816 and 1975: 1,227 Animalia, 712 Plantae, 128 Fungi, 87 Chromista, 7 Protozoa, 2 Bacteria, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. R. Hodgdon, A. R. Hodgdon; E. J. Hehre 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 Aecidium Pers.Aecidium Pers.1900Seymour, Arthur Blissnear Shoot-flying Hill [sic; Shootflying Hill], Hyannis, Mass. [Massachusetts]
Specimen of Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.1900A. B. SeymourHyannis
Specimen of Uromyces lineolatus (Desm.) J.Schröt.Uromyces lineolatus (Desm.) J.Schröt.1900W. G. Farlow
A photograph of the species Cistus L., not of this specimenCistus L.1816Boott, F.M.Sandwich, Massts. [=Sandwich, Massachusetts].
Lythraceae1816Boott, J.W.Sandwich, Mass'ts. | [On reverse of sheet:] From Sandwich, Mass'ts U.S.A. [=From Sandwich, Massachusetts, U.S.A.]
A photograph of the species Malva neglecta, not of this specimenMalva neglecta Wallr.1816Boott, J.W.Sandwich. Mass.tts.
A photograph of the species Brevoortia tyrannus, not of this specimenBrevoortia tyrannus (Latrobe, 1802)1860Harvard MuseumWaquoit
A photograph of the species Prionotus palmipes, not of this specimenPrionotus palmipes (Mitchill, 1815)1860Harvard MuseumWaguoit
A photograph of the species Calidris alba, not of this specimenCalidris alba (Pallas, 1764)1866not recordedCape Cod
A photograph of the species Esox niger, not of this specimenEsox niger Lesueur, 18181871Agassiz, Jean Louis RodolpheWaquoit/Waqouit Bay, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Prionotus carolinus, not of this specimenPrionotus carolinus (Linnaeus, 1771)1871Agassiz, Jean Louis RodolpheWaquoit/Waqouit Bay, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Scomber scombrus, not of this specimenScomber scombrus Linnaeus, 17581871Agassiz, Jean Louis RodolpheWaquoit/Waqouit Bay, Massachusetts

All 2,165 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Marstons Mills: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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
Byrne Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Campanella CorpSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Forestdale Pit & Plant TilconSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lebco EnterprisesSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lebco PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Marston Mills PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thew ContractorsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Barnstable County

Storms nearby

2 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Marstons Mills in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindMarstons Mills-At 333 PM EST (433 PM EDT) a narrow line of thunderstorms produced a wind gust to 58 mph at Marstons Mills, MA in the town of Barnstable.
June 1998HailMarstons Mills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barnstable 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
Newtown1.6 miles36
Pondsville2.0 miles36
Santuit2.2 miles34
Oyster Harbors2.4 miles34
Osterville2.5 miles34
Farmersville2.8 miles36
Cotuit2.9 miles34
Wianno3.3 miles34

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.

Wikipedia article on Marstons MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6774012The 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 615623. 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.