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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Pinehurst Beach, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Wareham town. It lies in ZIP code area 02571. It stands on Broad Marsh River. The Survey maps it on the Onset quadrangle.

Pinehurst Beach within Plymouth County

Then and now

1886 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Pinehurst Beach, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Pinehurst Beach, 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

139 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Pinehurst Beach between 2002 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Smoking10
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
7 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 September 2002Smokingunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
4 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
3 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,013 shown

Museums hold 2,013 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pinehurst Beach between 1860 and 1975: 1,055 Animalia, 536 Plantae, 321 Fungi, 74 Chromista, 23 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Chilomycterus geometricus, not of this specimenChilomycterus geometricus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)1860unknownBuzzards Bay
A photograph of the species Eleocharis tuberculosa, not of this specimenEleocharis tuberculosa (Michx.) Roem. & Schult.1864W. Booth
A photograph of the species Gobiosoma bosc, not of this specimenGobiosoma bosc (Lacepède, 1800)1872V. Edwards & United States Bureau of FisheriesWareham River, Massachusetts.
A photograph of the species Opsanus tau, not of this specimenOpsanus tau (Linnaeus, 1766)1875not recordedCataimet, Massachusetts, Squateagus near Woods Hole
A photograph of the species Pandalus leptocerus, not of this specimenPandalus leptocerus S.I.Smith, 18811875United States Fish Commissionoff Martha's Vineyard, southwest ledge
A photograph of the species Polysiphonia urceolata, not of this specimenPolysiphonia urceolata (Lightfoot ex Dillwyn) Greville1875B. E. LivingstonWoods Hole, Butlers Point
A photograph of the species Spirula spirula, not of this specimenSpirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758)1875United States Fish CommissionNobska Beach
A photograph of the species Tringa solitaria, not of this specimenTringa solitaria solitaria A.Wilson, 18131878Newell A. EddyNorth Falmouth
A photograph of the species Polysiphonia harveyi, not of this specimenPolysiphonia harveyi J.W.Bailey1879Collector unknown
Cortinarius collinitus (Sow. ex Fr.) Fr.1899H. WebsterWareham
Euspilotus conformis (J.E.LeConte, 1845)1899not recordedMarion
Hypocaccus dimidiatipennis (J.E.LeConte, 1824)1899not recordedMarion

All 2,013 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Pinehurst Beach: 6 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Albert WintersSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Charge Pond Road Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Marion PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rochester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wareham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Whitehead Brothers IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

Storms nearby

3 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Pinehurst Beach in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2011: 1 flood, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2011LightningPinehurst Beach1 hurtA 67 year old man was indirectly struck by lightning at Cape Cod Shipbuilding on Narrows Road. The lightning traveled through the ground to the man. He was conscious and alert when taken to a nearby hospital for evaluation.
September 2008FloodPinehurst Beach$50,000An Onset mobile home park was flooded with two and a half feet of water. One mobile home was moved off its foundation by these flood waters. Also, East Boulevard in the Onset section of Wareham was closed due to flooding.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindPinehurst Beach$45,000A large tree limb on Sandwich Road was downed onto a car by thunderstorm winds. The car was for sale at a used car dealership. Trees were downed into houses on Agawam Drive and Perry Avenue.

Every storm recorded in Plymouth 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
Hamilton Beach0.3 miles39
Parkwood Beach0.5 miles39
Swifts Beach0.7 miles39
Oakdale0.8 miles39
Wareham1.3 miles39
Weweantic1.4 miles39
Wareham Center1.6 miles39
Briarwood Beach1.8 miles39

Elsewhere

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.

Wikidata item Q122556570The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 615545. 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.