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

South Wellfleet, Massachusetts

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Wellfleet town. It lies in ZIP code area 02667. It stands on Blackfish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wellfleet OE E quadrangle.

South Wellfleet within Barnstable County

Then and now

1887 to 1993

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 South Wellfleet, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of South Wellfleet, surveyed 1887

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

74 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of South Wellfleet between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 2 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony12
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Fireworks3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreEWTWNLINE
22 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreLONG POND ROAD FIRE
22 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreGROSS HILL ROAD FIRE
22 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresCape Cod National SeashoreSHAPIRO
22 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreMAURICES
18 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreWIRE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,908 shown

Museums hold 2,908 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Wellfleet between 1819 and 1975: 1,952 Animalia, 699 Plantae, 84 Chromista, 63 Bacteria, 60 Unrecorded, 50 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Alan Hodgdon Hodgdon, A. R. Hodgdon, A. R. Hodgdon; G. B. Rossbach 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
Laminaria caperata Bachelot de la Pylaie, 18241819Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Pseudopleuronectes americanus, not of this specimenPseudopleuronectes americanus (Walbaum, 1792)1853Atwood, Nathaniel E.Cape Cod, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Ammodytes americanus, not of this specimenAmmodytes americanus DeKay, 18421859Weinland, David FriedrichCape Cod, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Pomatomus saltatrix, not of this specimenPomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766)1859Ordway, A.Cape Cod, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Stenotomus chrysops, not of this specimenStenotomus chrysops (Linnaeus, 1766)1860William BemisCape Cod Bay, Wellfleet Harbor
A photograph of the species Paralichthys oblongus, not of this specimenParalichthys oblongus (Mitchill, 1815)1862MCZ teamCape Cod, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Carex foenea, not of this specimenCarex foenea Willd.1864W. P. AlcottWellfleet
A photograph of the species Morone americana, not of this specimenMorone americana (Gmelin, 1789)1864MCZ teamCape Cod, rivers, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Scophthalmus aquosus, not of this specimenScophthalmus aquosus (Mitchill, 1815)1864MCZ teamCape Cod, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Peprilus triacanthus, not of this specimenPeprilus triacanthus (Peck, 1804)1871Blake, John HenryCape Cod, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Raja eglanteria, not of this specimenRaja eglanteria Bosc, 18001871MCZ teamCape Cod, Massachusetts
Ampharetidae1879United States Fish CommissionCape Cod Bay, off Wood end Light

All 2,908 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 South Wellfleet: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
M F Roach Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Le Count Hollow (historical)1.0 miles34
Wellfleet by the Sea1.2 miles34
Camp Mar Vel (historical)1.7 miles34
Fresh Brook1.8 miles34
Cahoon Hollow1.9 miles34
Wellfleet2.4 miles34
Mayo Beach2.6 miles34
Newcomb Hollow3.2 miles34

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.

Wikidata item Q122567772The 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 616827. 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.