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Pigeon Cove, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Rockport town. It lies in ZIP code area 01966. It stands on Pigeon Hill. The Survey maps it on the Gloucester OE N quadrangle.

Pigeon Cove within Essex County

Then and now

1886 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pigeon Cove, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Pigeon Cove, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

39 sheets

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.

Fires nearby

16 since 2016

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Pigeon Cove between 2016 and 2020, burning about 11 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.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 September 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
26 July 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
18 July 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlGLOUCESTER
21 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlROCKPORT
16 June 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlROCKPORT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,658 shown

Museums hold 3,658 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pigeon Cove between 1817 and 1975: 1,262 Animalia, 1,238 Plantae, 702 Fungi, 312 Chromista, 88 Protozoa, 39 Unrecorded, 17 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Perlmutter, A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour and F. C. Seymour 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Caloplaca murorum Th.Fr.Caloplaca murorum Th.Fr.1900Clara E. Cummings
A photograph of the species Coluber constrictor, not of this specimenColuber constrictor constrictor Linnaeus, 17581817not recordedLoblolly Cove, Cape Ann
A photograph of the species Lecanora tartarea, not of this specimenLecanora tartarea (L.) Ach.1839E. TuckermanManchester
A photograph of the species Ochrolechia yasudae, not of this specimenOchrolechia yasudae Vainio1839Tuckerman, E.
A photograph of the species Splachnum ampullaceum, not of this specimenSplachnum ampullaceum Hedw.1843A. Gray; W. S. SullivantManchester
A photograph of the species Ceramium rubrum, not of this specimenCeramium rubrum C.Agardh1847N. PikeCape Ann
A photograph of the species Acolium tigillare, not of this specimenAcolium tigillare (Ach.) Gray1849s.leg.
A photograph of the species Arthonia E.Acharius, not of this specimenArthonia E.Acharius, 18061849Tuckerman Edward
A photograph of the species Arthonia spectabilis, not of this specimenArthonia spectabilis Flot.1849Edward TuckermanEssex
A photograph of the species Arthothelium spectabile, not of this specimenArthothelium spectabile A.Massal.1849William Oakes
A photograph of the species Cyphelium tigillare, not of this specimenCyphelium tigillare (Ach.) Ach.1849W. OakesEssex
Delesseria alata (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux1859R.H. WardCape Ann.

All 3,658 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Pigeon Cove: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
John R MorseSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Johnson QuarryGranitePast Producer
Mc Niff-Dominic PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mcniff Co IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Morse PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rockport Quarries IncGranitePast ProducerGranite
Town of RockportGranitePast ProducerGranite
Town of Rockport QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms nearby

1 since 2018

The National Weather Service names Pigeon Cove in 1 storm report between 2018 and 2018: 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2018LightningPigeon Cove$5,000At 5:50 PM EST, lightning struck a house, causing a fire, on Tarr's Lane in Rockport.

Every storm recorded in Essex County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ocean View0.9 miles39
Rockport1.4 miles39
Lanesville1.4 miles28
Rowley Shore1.5 miles28
Bay View1.7 miles28
Stonehaven (historical)2.1 miles39
Annisquam2.6 miles28
Eden Square2.8 miles39

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 615288. 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.