Osterville, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1888 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.

• 1888 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
• 1941 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS Cape Cod Bay quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Cotuit 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
• 1949 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:24000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1974 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:24000
• 1974 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:24000
• 1974 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:25000
• 1974 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Cotuit quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Osterville between 2003 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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:

• Oyster Harbors
• Centerville
• Cotuit
• Craigville
• Craigville Beach
• Cotuit Highlands

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Museums hold 1,453 specimens collected within 10 miles of Osterville between 1860 and 1975: 686 Animalia, 603 Plantae, 95 Fungi, 59 Chromista, 7 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. R. Hodgdon, A. R. Hodgdon; E. J. Hehre 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
	Aecidium Pers.	1900	Seymour, Arthur Bliss	near Shoot-flying Hill [sic; Shootflying Hill], Hyannis, Mass. [Massachusetts]
	Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.	1900	A. B. Seymour	Hyannis
	Uromyces lineolatus (Desm.) J.Schröt.	1900	W. G. Farlow
	Brevoortia tyrannus (Latrobe, 1802)	1860	Harvard Museum	Waquoit
	Prionotus palmipes (Mitchill, 1815)	1860	Harvard Museum	Waguoit
	Calidris alba (Pallas, 1764)	1866	not recorded	Cape Cod
	Esox niger Lesueur, 1818	1871	Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe	Waquoit/Waqouit Bay, Massachusetts
	Prionotus carolinus (Linnaeus, 1771)	1871	Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe	Waquoit/Waqouit Bay, Massachusetts
	Scomber scombrus Linnaeus, 1758	1871	Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe	Waquoit/Waqouit Bay, Massachusetts
	Menidia menidia (Linnaeus, 1766)	1872	not recorded	Head of Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts.
	Ceramium diaphanum (Lightf.) Roth	1873	Lusk	Cotuit Port
	Ceramium rubrum C.Agardh	1873	Lusk	Cotuit Port

All 1,453 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Osterville: 4 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 Barnstable County

The National Weather Service names Osterville in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.

Every storm 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 615634. 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.