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

Popponesset Beach, Massachusetts

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Mashpee town. It lies in ZIP code area 02649. It stands on Popponesset Island. The Survey maps it on the Cotuit quadrangle.

Popponesset Beach within Barnstable County

Then and now

1888 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Popponesset Beach, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Popponesset Beach, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

34 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

37 since 2001

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Popponesset Beach between 2001 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 July 2017Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 July 2017Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,385 shown

Museums hold 2,385 specimens collected within 10 miles of Popponesset Beach between 1791 and 1975: 1,189 Animalia, 914 Plantae, 154 Fungi, 95 Chromista, 20 Bacteria, 8 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Harvey, A. B. Seymour, 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Aecidium Pers.Aecidium Pers.1900Seymour, Arthur Blissnear Shoot-flying Hill [sic; Shootflying Hill], Hyannis, Mass. [Massachusetts]
Specimen of Uromyces lineolatus (Desm.) J.Schröt.Uromyces lineolatus (Desm.) J.Schröt.1900W. G. Farlow
A photograph of the species Drosera filiformis, not of this specimenDrosera filiformis var. filiformis1791not recorded
A photograph of the species Polysiphonia fibrata, not of this specimenPolysiphonia fibrata (Dillwyn) Harvey1844Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Ulva clathrata, not of this specimenUlva clathrata (Roth) C.Agardh1852G. W. Perry
A photograph of the species Brevoortia tyrannus, not of this specimenBrevoortia tyrannus (Latrobe, 1802)1860Harvard MuseumWaquoit
A photograph of the species Prionotus palmipes, not of this specimenPrionotus palmipes (Mitchill, 1815)1860Harvard MuseumWaguoit
A photograph of the species Esox niger, not of this specimenEsox niger Lesueur, 18181871Agassiz, Jean Louis RodolpheWaquoit/Waqouit Bay, Massachusetts
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

All 2,385 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2017

The National Weather Service names Popponesset Beach in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2019: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2019Thunderstorm WindPopponesset Beach-Amateur radio reported a wind gust to 58 mph in the Popponesset section of Mashpee.
July 2017Flash FloodPopponesset Beach-At 138 PM EST, 12 inches of standing water were reported on the Mallway in Mashpee. Rainfall of 4 inches was measured in Mashpee.

Every storm recorded in Barnstable 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
Popponesset0.1 miles34
Rock Landing0.7 miles34
New Seabury0.7 miles34
Popponesset Island0.7 miles34
Maushop Village0.8 miles34
South Mashpee1.0 miles34
Seabrook2.1 miles34
Monomoscoy Island2.3 miles41

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 615644. 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.

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.