Old Harbor, Massachusetts

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.

1888 1993

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.

• 1888 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:62500
• 1917 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Monomoy Point quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS Monomoy Point quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS Nauset quadrangle1:125000
• 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 Monomoy Point quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Monomoy Point quadrangle1:31680
• 1953 USGS Monomoy Point quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Monomoy Point quadrangle1:24000
• 1964 USGS Monomoy Point quadrangle1:24000
• 1974 USGS Monomoy Point quadrangle1:25000
• 1974 USGS Monomoy Point quadrangle1:24000
• 1974 USGS Monomoy Point quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Monomoy Point quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Chatham quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Chatham 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 6 fires within 5 miles of Old Harbor between 2000 and 2017, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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:

• Shooters Island

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Museums hold 948 specimens collected within 10 miles of Old Harbor between 1840 and 1975: 491 Animalia, 377 Plantae, 52 Fungi, 25 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 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.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Carya tomentosa (Lam.) Nutt.	1840	Collector unspecified
	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
	Melampus bidentatus Say, 1822	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod
	Neptunea Röding, 1798	1872	Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish Commission	Cape Cod

All 948 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Old Harbor: 1 producer. All of them 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 eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 617185. 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.