BlockMount Bowdoin, Massachusetts
46 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Boston City. It lies in ZIP code area 02121. It stands on Mount Bowdoin. The Survey maps it on the Boston South quadrangle.
Then and now
1893 to 1989The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
On record in Mount Bowdoin
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 12 of 31 shown
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
William Monroe Trotter HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1976 · 0.9 miles away
Columbia Road-Devon Street Historic Districtlisted 2017 · 0.2 miles away
Sarah Davidson Apartment Blocklisted 2013 · 0.3 miles away
Collins Buildinglisted 2005 · 0.3 miles away
Columbia Road-Strathcona Road Historic Districtlisted 2018 · 0.3 miles away
Intervale Street-Columbia Road Historic Districtlisted 2019 · 0.4 miles away
Greenwood Memorial United Methodist Churchlisted 2002 · 0.5 miles away
Lawrence Avenue Historic Districtlisted 2021 · 0.5 miles away
Intervale Street-Blue Hill Avenue Historic Districtlisted 2020 · 0.6 miles away
Nathan Warnick Apartmentslisted 2019 · 0.6 miles away
Congregation Adath Jeshurunlisted 1999 · 0.6 miles away
Benedict Fenwick Schoollisted 2004 · 0.7 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
17 surveys from 46 printed 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.
- 1893 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500, 13 printings
- 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000
- 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1956 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:24000
- 1970 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000
- 1977 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000
- 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Boston city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
City Charter
IN giving some notices of manners and social life during this period, I shall speak first of usages which were characteristic of the close of the last century: most of them continued without essential modification until our city charter swept away the old landmarks, and Boston felt the im¬ pulses which mark a new epoch in her history.
Fires near this place
91 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Mount Bowdoin between 2015 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 59 |
| Smoking | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 23 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 2 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | BROOKLINE |
| 2 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | QUINCY |
| 14 September 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | QUINCY |
| 11 September 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | QUINCY |
| 10 September 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | QUINCY |
| 7 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | QUINCY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 16,005 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 16,005 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mount Bowdoin between 1810 and 1975: 7,005 Plantae, 4,340 Fungi, 3,477 Animalia, 710 Chromista, 210 Protozoa, 178 Bacteria, 85 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), ?, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Lysimachia × producta (A.Gray) Fernald | 1900 | A. P. Chute | |
 | Thalictrum L. | 1810 | Boott, J.W. | Near Boston. |
 | Anemone L. | 1815 | Boott, J. | Andover Turnpike, 7 miles from Boston. |
 | Betula L. | 1815 | Boott, J.W. | Near Fresh Pond, Cambridge, 4 miles from Boston. |
 | Chenopodium album L. | 1815 | not recorded | Gathered at Bunker (properly Breed's) Hill. |
 | Corylus L. | 1815 | not recorded | Cambridge Port, 2 miles from Boston. |
| Ericaceae | 1815 | Boott | Boston, U.S.A. | |
| Acanthis flammea flammea (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1900 | ZAPPEY, W R | ROSLINDALE | |
| Acer carpinifolium Siebold & Zucc. | 1900 | A. K. Harrison | Harvard Botanic Garden, Cambridge. | |
| Acer palmatum var. dissectum (Thunb.) Miq. | 1900 | A. K. Harrison | Harvard Botanic Garden, Cambridge. | |
| Agaricus flavescens (Gillet) Sacc. | 1900 | G. E. Morris | ||
| Agarum turneri Postels & Ruprecht | 1900 | J. Murdoch | Revere |
All 16,005 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Mount Bowdoin: 6 plants, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. J. Mabardy | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| West Roxbury Crushed Stone Operatio | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Whittemore Prdts Inc--Boston | Perlite | Plant | ||
| (Facility) Cambridge Smelter Co | Lead | Plant | ||
| General Metals & Smelting--Boston | Lead | Plant | ||
| Industrial Serv. Centers--Cambridge | Iron | Plant | ||
| Us Steel Supply Div--Boston | Iron | Plant | ||
| Wheelock-Lovejoy--Cambridge, Ma. | Iron | Plant |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorchester | 0.5 miles | 46 | |
| Grove Hall | 0.5 miles | 46 | |
| Mount Ida | 0.6 miles | 46 | |
| Meeting House Hill | 0.7 miles | 46 | |
| Dorchester Center | 0.9 miles | 46 | |
| Fields Corner | 0.9 miles | 46 | |
| Savin Hill | 1.1 miles | 46 | |
| Uphams Corner | 1.1 miles | 46 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122563470 | 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 612964. 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.