Onset Station, 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 Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1921 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Wareham quadrangle1:24000
• 1939 USGS Wareham quadrangle1:31680
• 1939 USGS Wareham quadrangle1:31680
• 1939 USGS Wareham quadrangle1:31680
• 1939 USGS Wareham quadrangle1:31680
• 1939 USGS Wareham quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000
• 1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1946 USGS Wareham quadrangle1:31680
• 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
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Wareham quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Wareham quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Wareham quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Wareham quadrangle1:25000
• 1972 USGS Wareham quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Wareham quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Onset Station between 2001 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 9 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:

• East Wareham
• Pondville
• White Island Shores
• Indian Heights
• Jefferson Shores
• Onset

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Museums hold 2,380 specimens collected within 10 miles of Onset Station between 1816 and 1975: 1,178 Animalia, 748 Plantae, 356 Fungi, 84 Chromista, 10 Bacteria, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. C. Mathieson, A. H. Moore 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
	Tolyposporium eriocauli G.P.Clinton	1900	G.P. Clinton
	Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle	1900	G. P. Clinton
	Cistus L.	1816	Boott, F.M.	Sandwich, Massts. [=Sandwich, Massachusetts].
	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.]
	Malva neglecta Wallr.	1816	Boott, J.W.	Sandwich. Mass.tts.
	Juncus greenei Oakes & Tuck.	1825	W. Oakes	Plymouth
	Baptisia tinctoria (L.) R.Br.	1837	J. Blake
	Amaranthus hybridus L.	1855	not recorded
	Clethra alnifolia L.	1855	not recorded
	Euthamia lanceolata (L.) G.L.Nesom	1855	not recorded
	Cortinarius collinitus (Sow. ex Fr.) Fr.	1899	H. Webster	Wareham
	Euspilotus conformis (J.E.LeConte, 1845)	1899	not recorded	Marion

All 2,380 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Onset Station: 3 past producers. 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.

Every working recorded in Plymouth 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 615279. 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.