Mashpee Neck, 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. It stands on Quaker Run. The Survey maps it on the Cotuit quadrangle. 1,076 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 39 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMashpee Neck grew from 1,000 to 1,076 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,000 | |
| 2020 | 1,076 | +76 (+8%) |
Then and now
1888 to 1994The 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 sheets covering this place
34 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1888 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:31680
- 1941 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:31680
- 1942 USGS Cape Cod Bay quadrangle1:125000
- 1943 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:31680
- 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:24000
- 1974 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:24000
- 1974 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:25000
- 1974 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
71 since 2001The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Mashpee Neck between 2001 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined | 35 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | 3115 |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | 3109 |
| 2 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 2 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 3 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 26 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 23 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 7 July 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 2,691 shownMuseums hold 2,691 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mashpee Neck between 1791 and 1975: 1,334 Animalia, 1,027 Plantae, 183 Fungi, 111 Chromista, 23 Bacteria, 8 Protozoa, 5 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Aecidium Pers. | 1900 | Seymour, Arthur Bliss | near Shoot-flying Hill [sic; Shootflying Hill], Hyannis, Mass. [Massachusetts] |
![]() | Uromyces lineolatus (Desm.) J.Schröt. | 1900 | W. G. Farlow | |
![]() | Drosera filiformis var. filiformis | 1791 | not recorded | |
![]() | Polysiphonia fibrata (Dillwyn) Harvey | 1844 | Collector unknown | |
![]() | Ulva clathrata (Roth) C.Agardh | 1852 | G. W. Perry | |
![]() | Brevoortia tyrannus (Latrobe, 1802) | 1860 | Harvard Museum | Waquoit |
![]() | Prionotus palmipes (Mitchill, 1815) | 1860 | Harvard Museum | Waguoit |
![]() | Calidris alba (Pallas, 1764) | 1866 | not recorded | Cape Cod |
![]() | Esox niger Lesueur, 1818 | 1871 | Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe | Waquoit/Waqouit Bay, Massachusetts |
![]() | Nereis megalops (Verrill, 1873) | 1871 | Verrill, A. E. | Falmouth. Waquoit Pond |
![]() | Nereis pelagica Linnaeus, 1758 | 1871 | Verrill, A. E. | Falmouth. Waquoit Pond |
![]() | Nereis succinea Leuckart, 1847 | 1871 | Verrill, A. E. | Falmouth. Waquoit Pond |
All 2,691 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Tree Corner | 1.3 miles | 34 | |
| Cotuit Highlands | 1.5 miles | 34 | |
| Cotuit | 1.5 miles | 34 | |
| Popponesset Island | 1.8 miles | 34 | |
| South Mashpee | 2.0 miles | 34 | |
| Santuit | 2.0 miles | 34 | |
| Popponesset Beach | 2.5 miles | 34 | |
| Popponesset | 2.5 miles | 34 |
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 Mashpee Neck | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5843425 | The 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 1877295. 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.













































