Point Shirley, 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
• 1892 USGS Boston Bay quadrangle1:62500
• 1892 USGS Boston Bay quadrangle1:62500
• 1892 USGS Boston Bay quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston Bay quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston Bay quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston Bay quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston Bay quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston Bay quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston Bay quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston Bay quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston Bay quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Boston Bay quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Hull quadrangle1:24000
• 1946 USGS Hull quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Hull quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Hull quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Hull quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Hull quadrangle1:25000
• 1949 USGS Hull quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Hull quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Hull quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Hull quadrangle1:24000
• 1971 USGS Hull quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Hull quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Hull quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000
• 1997 USGS Hull quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Point Shirley between 2015 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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:

• Cottage Hill
• Cottage Park
• Court Park
• East Boston
• Fort Winthrop (historical)
• North End

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Museums hold 15,321 specimens collected within 10 miles of Point Shirley between 1810 and 1975: 7,834 Plantae, 2,929 Animalia, 2,852 Fungi, 1,253 Chromista, 209 Bacteria, 130 Protozoa, 114 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), ?, A B Seymour 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
	Lysimachia × producta (A.Gray) Fernald	1900	A. P. Chute
	Thalictrum L.	1810	Boott, J.W.	Near Boston.
	Anemone L.	1815	Boott, J.	Andover Turnpike, 7 miles from Boston.
	Betula L.	1815	Boott, J.W.	Near Fresh Pond, Cambridge, 4 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.
	Hepatica Mill.	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Sweet Auburn.
	Acanthis flammea flammea (Linnaeus, 1758)	1900	ZAPPEY, W R	ROSLINDALE
	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

All 15,321 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Point Shirley: 4 plants. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Copper, Lead, Perlite. 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.

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 614127. 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.