Megansett, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 1994

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.

• 1886 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1915 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1920 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:20000
• 1941 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000
• 1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:25000
• 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
• 1953 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:31680
• 1953 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:31680
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:25000
• 1967 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Pocasset quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1890 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Megansett between 2001 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 13 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:

• Amrita
• Cataumet
• Cataumet Station
• Patuisset
• Pocasset
• South Pocasset

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Museums hold 10,403 specimens collected within 10 miles of Megansett between 1791 and 1975: 5,304 Animalia, 3,077 Plantae, 1,065 Fungi, 767 Chromista, 140 Bacteria, 26 Protozoa, 24 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A B Seymour, A. A. Cohen, A. B. Harvey 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
	Enallagma civile (Hagen, 1861)	1899	J. Benedict	Woods Hole
	Erythemis simplicicollis (Say, 1840)	1899	J. Benedict	Woods Hole
	Lestes unguiculatus Hagen, 1861	1899	J. Benedict	Woods Hole
	Drosera filiformis var. filiformis	1791	not recorded
	Lythraceae	1816	Boott, J.W.	Sandwich, Mass'ts. | [On reverse of sheet:] From Sandwich, Mass'ts U.S.A. [=From Sandwich, Massachusetts, U.S.A.]
	Polysiphonia flexicaulis (Harvey) F.S.Collins	1839	unknown	Woods Hole
	Ectocarpus littoralis (L.) Lyngb.	1841	B. F. D. Runk	Woods Hole, Nobska Point, wash
	Polysiphonia fibrata (Dillwyn) Harvey	1844	Collector unknown
	Alosa aestivalis (Mitchill, 1814)	1852	not recorded	Wood's Hole, Massachusetts.
	Clupea harengus Linnaeus, 1758	1852	not recorded	Wood's Hole, Massachusetts.
	Menidia menidia (Linnaeus, 1766)	1852	not recorded	Wood's Hole, Massachusetts.
	Prionotus evolans (Linnaeus, 1766)	1852	not recorded	Wood's Hole, Massachusetts.

All 10,403 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Megansett: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 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.

Every working recorded in Barnstable County

The National Weather Service names Megansett in 1 storm report between 2020 and 2020: 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.

Every storm recorded in Barnstable 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 616429. 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.