Scorton Shores, Massachusetts

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.

1888 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.

• 1888 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Barnstable quadrangle1:62500
• 1938 USGS Sandwich quadrangle1:31680
• 1939 USGS Sandwich quadrangle1:24000
• 1940 USGS Sandwich quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS Cape Cod Bay quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Sandwich quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Sandwich quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Sandwich quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Sandwich quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Sandwich 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
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Sandwich quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Sandwich quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Sandwich quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Sandwich quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Sandwich quadrangle1:25000
• 1972 USGS Sandwich quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Sandwich quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1890 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 70 fires within 5 miles of Scorton Shores between 2008 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 3 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:

• East Sandwich
• Old Quaker Meetinghouse
• Plowed Neck
• West Barnstable
• Marstons Mills
• Newtown

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Museums hold 3,225 specimens collected within 10 miles of Scorton Shores between 1816 and 1975: 2,335 Animalia, 607 Plantae, 150 Fungi, 124 Chromista, 7 Protozoa, 1 Bacteria, 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Aecidium Pers.	1900	Seymour, Arthur Bliss	near Shoot-flying Hill [sic; Shootflying Hill], Hyannis, Mass. [Massachusetts]
	Tolyposporium eriocauli G.P.Clinton	1900	G.P. Clinton
	Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.	1900	A. B. Seymour	Hyannis
	Cistus L.	1816	Boott, F.M.	Sandwich, Massts. [=Sandwich, Massachusetts].
	Lythraceae	1816	Boott, J.W.	Sandwich, Mass'ts. | [On reverse of sheet:] From Sandwich, Mass'ts U.S.A. [=From Sandwich, Massachusetts, U.S.A.]
	Malva neglecta Wallr.	1816	Boott, J.W.	Sandwich. Mass.tts.
	Calidris alba (Pallas, 1764)	1866	not recorded	Cape Cod
	Ceramium diaphanum (Lightf.) Roth	1873	Lusk	Cotuit Port
	Ceramium rubrum C.Agardh	1873	Lusk	Cotuit Port
	Grinnellia americana (C.Agardh) Harv.	1873	Lusk	Cotuit Port
	Sphacelaria cirrosa (Roth) C.Agardh	1873	Lusk	Cotuit Port
	Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1874	Collector(s): William Brewster	Osterville

All 3,225 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Scorton Shores: 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.

Every working recorded in Barnstable 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 617219. 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.