Orient Heights, Massachusetts

The 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.

1893 1989

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.

• 1893 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:24000
• 1946 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:31680
• 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
• 1956 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:24000
• 1971 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:25000
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Boston city, in the words of 1894.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Orient Heights between 2003 and 2020, burning about 18 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.

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:

• Beachmont
• Crescent Beach
• Suffolk Downs Station
• Winthrop Highlands
• Revere
• Winthrop

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Museums hold 16,117 specimens collected within 10 miles of Orient Heights between 1810 and 1975: 7,564 Plantae, 3,903 Fungi, 2,804 Animalia, 1,319 Chromista, 227 Bacteria, 180 Protozoa, 120 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A B Seymour, A C Gibson 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
	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
	Alnus incana subsp. rugosa (Du Roi) R.T.Clausen	1900	J. Murdoch, Jr.	Roxbury

All 16,117 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Orient Heights: 7 plants, 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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 Suffolk 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 612795. 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.