Old Spain, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1885 1984

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.

• 1885 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1920 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:31680
• 1947 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:25000
• 1971 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000
• 1984 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 362 fires within 5 miles of Old Spain between 2015 and 2020, burning about 164 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:

• Idlewell
• Weymouth
• Weymouth Heights
• Weymouth Landing
• East Braintree
• North Weymouth

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Museums hold 7,945 specimens collected within 10 miles of Old Spain between 1815 and 1975: 4,404 Plantae, 2,197 Animalia, 914 Fungi, 359 Chromista, 45 Unrecorded, 18 Protozoa, 8 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), A Loveridge, A Phelps Wyman 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
	Ericaceae	1815	Boott	Boston, U.S.A.
	Limonium vulgare Mill.	1815	not recorded	On Cragies Road [=near Cragies Bridge], 1 1/2 miles from Boston.
	Mollugo verticillata L.	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Boston.
	Ranunculus L.	1815	not recorded	Thicket at South Boston.
	Fallopia Adans.	1816	Boott, J.W.	Andover Turnpike, near Boston. N. America.
	Cistus L.	1819	Boott, J.W.	Boston USA.
	Lythraceae	1819	Boott, J.	Boston, U.S.A.
	Lythrum L.	1819	Boott, J.	Boston, U.S.A.
	Solanum bonariense L.	1819	Boott, J.W.	Boston.
	Solidago gigantea Aiton	1819	Boott, F.M.B.	Boston.
	Porphyra purpurea (Roth) C.Agardh	1820	not recorded	Boston.

All 7,945 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Old Spain: 10 producers, 9 past producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. 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 Norfolk 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 617747. 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.