Plymouth, Massachusetts

This curated hub for Plymouth County, Massachusetts brings together the page's documented record links, visible map or image evidence where published, and routes to related local records.

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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.

1886 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.

• 1886 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1921 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1934 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1939 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:31680
• 1939 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:31680
• 1939 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:31680
• 1939 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000
• 1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 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
• 1950 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1950 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:31680
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1977 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 315 fires within 5 miles of Plymouth between 2006 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. 3 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.

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:

• Patuxet (historical)
• Camp Norse
• East Carver
• Beach Park
• Camp Mishannock
• Jabez Corner

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Museums hold 2,430 specimens collected within 10 miles of Plymouth between 1816 and 1975: 1,767 Animalia, 404 Plantae, 180 Fungi, 59 Chromista, 14 Protozoa, 6 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by -- Russell, A., A. C. Mathieson 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
	Taphrina Fr., 1815	1900	Seymour, Arthur Bliss	Plymouth Woods, Mass. [Massachusetts]
	Trientalis borealis Raf.	1900	not recorded
	Sparganium L.	1816	Boott, J.W.	Plymouth, Mass.ts.
	Juncus greenei Oakes & Tuck.	1825	W. Oakes	Plymouth
	Baptisia tinctoria (L.) R.Br.	1837	J. Blake
	Myriophyllum humile (Raf.) Morong	1838	W Oakes
	Utricularia cornuta Michx.	1840	None	Plymouth
	Carex stellata Mack.	1842	Collector unspecified	[Half May Pond], Plymouth.
	Pseudevernia consocians (Vainio) Hale & W.L.Culb.	1849	-- Russell	Kingston
	Amaranthus hybridus L.	1855	not recorded
	Phylloporus rhodoxanthus (Schwein.) Bres.	1899	Dr. Hallock
	Russula crustosa Peck, 1887	1899	Dr. Hallock

All 2,430 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Plymouth: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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 Plymouth County

The National Weather Service names Plymouth in 43 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 13 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 heavy rain, 4 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 Plymouth County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 615295. 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.