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

Piney Point Beach, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Marion town. It lies in ZIP code area 02738. It stands on Clapps Island. The Survey maps it on the Onset quadrangle.

Piney Point 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 Piney Point Beach, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Piney Point 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

77 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Piney Point Beach between 2002 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1
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
27 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
9 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
8 August 2018Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 August 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
5 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control2152943
31 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,952 shown

Museums hold 2,952 specimens collected within 10 miles of Piney Point Beach between 1791 and 1975: 1,718 Animalia, 760 Plantae, 334 Fungi, 107 Chromista, 29 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 Drosera filiformis, not of this specimenDrosera filiformis var. filiformis1791not 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 Griffithsia corallina, not of this specimenGriffithsia corallina C.Agardh1871W. G. FarlowBuzzards Bay
A photograph of the species Heterocrypta granulata, not of this specimenHeterocrypta granulata (Gibbes, 1850)1871J. HyattNear Sacconnesset Light Ship
A photograph of the species Nereis megalops, not of this specimenNereis megalops (Verrill, 1873)1871Verrill, A. E.Falmouth. Waquoit Pond
A photograph of the species Nereis pelagica, not of this specimenNereis pelagica Linnaeus, 17581871Verrill, A. E.Falmouth. Waquoit Pond
A photograph of the species Nereis succinea, not of this specimenNereis succinea Leuckart, 18471871Verrill, A. E.Falmouth. Waquoit Pond
A photograph of the species Notomastus luridus, not of this specimenNotomastus luridus Verrill, 18731871Verrill, A. E.Falmouth. Waquoit Pond
A photograph of the species Alosa aestivalis, not of this specimenAlosa aestivalis (Mitchill, 1814)1899B. Bean & V. EdwardsMassachusetts, Buzzards Bay
A photograph of the species Aluterus schoepfii, not of this specimenAluterus schoepfii (Walbaum, 1792)1899not recordedWest Falmouth, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Anguilla rostrata, not of this specimenAnguilla rostrata (Lesueur, 1817)1899not recordedWest Falmouth

All 2,952 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Piney Point Beach: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Albert WintersSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
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

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
East Marion1.7 miles39
Marion2.2 miles35
Weweantic2.8 miles39
Harbor Beach2.8 miles35
Alms House2.9 miles35
Briarwood Beach3.1 miles39
Swifts Beach3.2 miles39
Holly Woods3.2 miles35

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 615553. 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.