Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

North Chatham, Massachusetts

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Chatham town. It lies in ZIP code area 02650. It stands on Cannon Hill. The Survey maps it on the Chatham quadrangle.

North Chatham within Barnstable County

Then and now

1888 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of North Chatham, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet of North Chatham, 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.

In the 1890 county history

50 words on this township

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 chapter on Chatham Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Chatham Town - 50 words.

Fires nearby

49 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of North Chatham between 2003 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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	19
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	1968
5 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	1944
24 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
16 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
10 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	1993
29 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,210 shown

Museums hold 2,210 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Chatham between 1819 and 1975: 1,094 Plantae, 811 Animalia, 165 Fungi, 60 Bacteria, 41 Unrecorded, 39 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Pealey, A. R. Hodgdon 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Laminaria caperata Bachelot de la Pylaie, 1824	1819	Collector unknown
Carya tomentosa (Lam.) Nutt.	1840	Collector unspecified
Alosa mediocris (Mitchill, 1814)	1871	MCZ team	Brewster, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Bittiolum alternatum (Say, 1822)	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod
Buccinum undatum Linnaeus, 1758	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod
Gastropoda	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod
Helix Linnaeus, 1758	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod
Hydrobia minuta (Totten, 1834)	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod
Lacuna vincta (Montagu, 1803)	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod
Littorina littorea (Linnaeus, 1758)	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod
Littorina rudis (Maton, 1797)	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod
Lunatia heros (Say, 1822)	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod

All 2,210 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of North Chatham: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Nickerson T W Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Barnstable County

Storms nearby

1 since 2015

The National Weather Service names North Chatham in 1 storm report between 2015 and 2015: 1 flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2015	Flood	North Chatham	-	Several roads experienced street flooding, closing the roads. These included: Orleans Road at Frost Fish Road, Stepping Stones at Heritage Lane, Commerce Park South, Main Street near the Chatham Motel, and Route 28 near Stoney Hill Road.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Chatham Port	0.8 miles	34
Chatham	1.4 miles	34
West Chatham	2.4 miles	34
Quitnesset	3.1 miles	34
East Harwich	3.9 miles	31
South Orleans	3.9 miles	33
South Chatham	4.1 miles	31
South Harwich	5.1 miles	31

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 615967. 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.