Point of Pines, 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.

1892 1997

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.

• 1892 USGS Boston Bay quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1903 USGS Boston Bay quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1944 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:24000
• 1946 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:25000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:31680
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1956 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1970 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:25000
• 1970 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:25000

Professional and Industrial History of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, published 1894 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Point of Pines between 2003 and 2020, burning about 242 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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:

• Franklin Park
• Oak Island
• Fort Warren

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 11,503 specimens collected within 10 miles of Point of Pines between 1810 and 1975: 5,846 Plantae, 2,313 Fungi, 1,782 Animalia, 1,186 Chromista, 195 Bacteria, 101 Unrecorded, 80 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A B Seymour, A Phelps Wyman 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
	Thalictrum L.	1810	Boott, J.W.	Near Boston.
	Anemone L.	1815	Boott, J.	Andover Turnpike, 7 miles from Boston.
	Chenopodium album L.	1815	not recorded	Gathered at Bunker (properly Breed's) Hill.
	Corylus L.	1815	not recorded	Cambridge Port, 2 miles from Boston.
	Ericaceae	1815	Boott	Boston, U.S.A.
	Limonium vulgare Mill.	1815	not recorded	On Cragies Road [=near Cragies Bridge], 1 1/2 miles from Boston.
	Mollugo verticillata L.	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Boston.
	Acer carpinifolium Siebold & Zucc.	1900	A. K. Harrison	Harvard Botanic Garden, Cambridge.
	Acer palmatum var. dissectum (Thunb.) Miq.	1900	A. K. Harrison	Harvard Botanic Garden, Cambridge.
	Agaricus flavescens (Gillet) Sacc.	1900	G. E. Morris
	Agarum turneri Postels & Ruprecht	1900	J. Murdoch	Revere
	Aphanochaete repens A.Braun	1900	F. S. Collins	Middlesex Fells, Wright's Pond, on Oedogonium, etc.

All 11,503 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Point of Pines: 4 producers, 3 plants, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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 Suffolk County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 613405. 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.