South Dennis, Massachusetts

South Dennis grew from 3,643 to 3,899 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

The same ground, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1887 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.

• 1887 USGS Yarmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Yarmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Yarmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Yarmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Yarmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Yarmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Yarmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Yarmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Yarmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Cape Cod Bay quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Dennis quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Dennis quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Dennis 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
• 1949 USGS Dennis quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS Dennis quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Dennis quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Dennis quadrangle1:24000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1974 USGS Dennis quadrangle1:24000
• 1974 USGS Dennis quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Dennis 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 83 fires within 5 miles of South Dennis between 2015 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 8 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:

• Dennis Port
• West Dennis
• West Harwich
• Bass River
• North Harwich
• South Yarmouth

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Museums hold 2,994 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Dennis between 1866 and 1975: 1,801 Animalia, 855 Plantae, 233 Fungi, 77 Chromista, 22 Unrecorded, 5 Bacteria, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. R. Hodgdon, A. R. Hodgdon 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]
	Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.	1900	A. B. Seymour	Hyannis
	Calidris alba (Pallas, 1764)	1866	not recorded	Cape Cod
	Alosa mediocris (Mitchill, 1814)	1871	MCZ team	Brewster, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
	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
	Cancer irroratus Say, 1817	1875	United States Fish Commission
	Decapoda	1875	United States Fish Commission
	Minuca pugnax (Smith, 1870)	1875	United States Fish Commission	Barnstable
	Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758	1875	United States Fish Commission	Barnstable

All 2,994 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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 615880. 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.