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Mashpee, Massachusetts

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Mashpee town. It lies in ZIP code area 02649. The Survey maps it on the Sandwich quadrangle. 15,060 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 56 feet above sea level.

Mashpee within Barnstable County

Population over time

2 figures

Mashpee grew from 14,006 to 15,060 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.

YearPeople Change
201014,006
202015,060+1,054 (+8%)

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 Mashpee, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mashpee, 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

80 since 2001

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Mashpee between 2001 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined33
Debris and open burning23
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2
Smoking1
Other causes1

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 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
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
2 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control2708
3 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,992 shown

Museums hold 2,992 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mashpee between 1791 and 1975: 1,473 Animalia, 1,117 Plantae, 225 Fungi, 139 Chromista, 24 Bacteria, 8 Protozoa, 6 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. C. Mathieson, A. Gross 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 lineolatus (Desm.) J.Schröt.Uromyces lineolatus (Desm.) J.Schröt.1900W. G. Farlow
A photograph of the species Drosera filiformis, not of this specimenDrosera filiformis var. filiformis1791not recorded
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 Polysiphonia fibrata, not of this specimenPolysiphonia fibrata (Dillwyn) Harvey1844Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Ulva clathrata, not of this specimenUlva clathrata (Roth) C.Agardh1852G. W. Perry
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

All 2,992 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 Mashpee: 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

11 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Mashpee in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 2 hail. 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
August 2003LightningMashpee$2,500,000no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindMashpee$25,000no account filed
September 2011LightningMashpee$15,000Lightning struck a house, causing a fire that resulted in damage to the third floor attic.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMashpee$3,000Large branches on Great Neck Road were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMashpee$1,500In Mashpee, multiple trees were reported down across the town.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMashpee$1,300In Mashpee at 840 PM EDT (740 PM EST), a large tree and wires were down on Meetinghouse Road at Great Neck Road North.
November 2021Thunderstorm WindMashpee$500Sandwich police reported a tree down on South Sandwich Road.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMashpee$300In Mashpee, large tree limbs were downed.
August 2011HailMashpee-no account filed
May 2004HailMashpee-no account filed
July 1999LightningMashpee-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
Santuit1.8 miles34
Wakeby2.1 miles36
Pine Tree Corner2.1 miles34
Newtown2.8 miles36
Mashpee Neck2.8 miles34
Forestdale3.1 miles36
Cotuit3.2 miles34
Camp Edwards3.4 miles40

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 MashpeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q612652The 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 615624. 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.