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Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bourne town. It lies in ZIP code area 02562. It stands on Scusset River (historical). The Survey maps it on the Sagamore quadrangle. It stands 203 feet above sea level.

Sagamore Beach within Barnstable County

Then and now

1886 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Sagamore Beach, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Sagamore Beach, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

39 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

92 since 2001

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Sagamore Beach between 2001 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 5 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Debris and open burning24
Smoking17
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control2724
26 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLYMOUTH
30 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLYMOUTH
29 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLYMOUTH
27 August 2003Smokingunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLYMOUTH
2 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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 3,166 shown

Museums hold 3,166 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sagamore Beach between 1816 and 1975: 2,420 Animalia, 475 Plantae, 173 Fungi, 90 Chromista, 7 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. R. Hodgdon, A. R. Hodgdon; E. J. Hehre 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 Tolyposporium eriocauli G.P.ClintonTolyposporium eriocauli G.P.Clinton1900G.P. Clinton
Specimen of Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & SwingleUstilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle1900G. P. Clinton
A photograph of the species Cistus L., not of this specimenCistus L.1816Boott, F.M.Sandwich, Massts. [=Sandwich, Massachusetts].
Lythraceae1816Boott, J.W.Sandwich, Mass'ts. | [On reverse of sheet:] From Sandwich, Mass'ts U.S.A. [=From Sandwich, Massachusetts, U.S.A.]
A photograph of the species Malva neglecta, not of this specimenMalva neglecta Wallr.1816Boott, J.W.Sandwich. Mass.tts.
A photograph of the species Juncus greenei, not of this specimenJuncus greenei Oakes & Tuck.1825W. OakesPlymouth
A photograph of the species Baptisia tinctoria, not of this specimenBaptisia tinctoria (L.) R.Br.1837J. Blake
A photograph of the species Amaranthus hybridus, not of this specimenAmaranthus hybridus L.1855not recorded
A photograph of the species Clethra alnifolia, not of this specimenClethra alnifolia L.1855not recorded
A photograph of the species Euthamia lanceolata, not of this specimenEuthamia lanceolata (L.) G.L.Nesom1855not recorded
A photograph of the species Persicaria pensylvanica, not of this specimenPersicaria pensylvanica (L.) Small1855not recorded
A photograph of the species Stachys hyssopifolia, not of this specimenStachys hyssopifolia Michx.1855not recorded

All 3,166 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sagamore Beach: 1 producer. All of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gil-Pam Construction PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Barnstable County

Storms nearby

1 since 2009

The National Weather Service names Sagamore Beach in 1 storm report between 2009 and 2009: 1 flash flood. 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
September 2009Flash FloodSagamore Beach$50,000Six inches of rain fell in less than three hours over portions of Cape Cod and southern Plymouth County. Bourne and southern Plymouth were most affected by this with numerous roadways flooded. Route 130 in Bourne was flooded with eight inches of water while St. Margaret's Street was inundated with three feet of water. Buzzard's Bay Drive was flooded, as were several basements and businesses along the street. Several cars became disabled after becoming stuck in flood waters on roadways in Onset (a village of Bourne). Two feet of water inundated a Pleasantwood Road in Sandwich. A portion of Lake Avenue in Wareham was washed out. A section of Bournedale Road was washed out. In Plymouth, numerous roads were flooded, including Lunns Way, Pond, Nameloc, Raymond, and Hedges Pond Roads, Windward Lane, and South Wind Drive. Two cars were stuck in flood waters on Pond Road.

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
Sagamore Highlands0.7 miles39
Sagamore2.0 miles39
Bournedale2.4 miles39
Sandwich3.3 miles36
The Springs4.4 miles36
Old Quaker Meetinghouse5.2 miles36
Bourne Corners5.3 miles39
Bourne5.4 miles40

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on Sagamore BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972555The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 616333. 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.