Pocomo, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1889 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.

• 1889 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Nantucket quadrangle1:125000
• 1945 USGS Siasconset quadrangle1:31680
• 1945 USGS Siasconset 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
• 1951 USGS Siasconset quadrangle1:24000
• 1951 USGS Siasconset quadrangle1:24000
• 1951 USGS Siasconset quadrangle1:31680
• 1951 USGS Siasconset quadrangle1:31680
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Siasconset quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Siasconset quadrangle1:25000
• 1972 USGS Siasconset quadrangle1:25000
• 1972 USGS Siasconset quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Siasconset quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Siasconset quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Martha's Vineyard quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Martha's Vineyard quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1889 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Pocomo between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None 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:

• Polpis
• South East Quarter (historical)
• Middle Pasture (historical)
• North Pasture (historical)
• Quaise
• Shawkemo

Every fire recorded in Nantucket County

Museums hold 4,085 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pocomo between 1825 and 1974: 2,694 Plantae, 866 Animalia, 382 Fungi, 111 Chromista, 25 Unrecorded, 7 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A AND P STARRETT, A. B. Seymour, A. Cohen 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
	Anemone quinquefolia L.	1900	M. A. Day
	Rumex maritimus var. fueginus (Phil.) Dusén	1825	Collector unspecified	Martha's Vineyard. Block Id.
	Chrysopsis falcata (Pursh) Elliott	1827	F. A. Greene
	Platanthera flava (L.) Lindl.	1827	T. A. Greene	Nantucket.
	Desmodium rigidum (Elliott) DC.	1829	Oakes
	Ceramium cimbricum H.E.Petersen	1831	not recorded	Nantucket.
	Gloeosporium polygoni Dearn. & House	1836	Guba E. F.	Nantucket Co. Cultivated Fields on Hummock Rd.
	Chondria dasyphylla (Woodward) C.Agardh	1848	M. L. Owen
	Ludwigia palustris (L.) Elliott	1849	J. L. Russell
	Acer rubrum L.	1899	Nellie F. Flynn
	Aletris farinosa L.	1899	Flynn, N. F.	Nantucket
	Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.	1899	Nellie F. Flynn

All 4,085 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pocomo: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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 Nantucket 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 616946. 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.