Swifts Beach, Massachusetts

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.

1886 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.

• 1886 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1915 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1920 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Onset quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Onset quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Onset quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Onset quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Onset quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000
• 1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000
• 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
• 1953 USGS Onset quadrangle1:31680
• 1953 USGS Onset quadrangle1:31680
• 1953 USGS Onset quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Onset quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Onset quadrangle1:25000
• 1967 USGS Onset quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Onset quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Onset quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Swifts Beach between 2015 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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:

• Briarwood Beach
• Weweantic
• East Marion
• Hamilton Beach
• Oakdale
• Pinehurst Beach

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Museums hold 2,026 specimens collected within 10 miles of Swifts Beach between 1860 and 1975: 1,046 Animalia, 561 Plantae, 309 Fungi, 83 Chromista, 23 Bacteria, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. C. Mathieson, A. H. Moore 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
	Chilomycterus geometricus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)	1860	unknown	Buzzards Bay
	Eleocharis tuberculosa (Michx.) Roem. & Schult.	1864	W. Booth
	Gobiosoma bosc (Lacepède, 1800)	1872	V. Edwards & United States Bureau of Fisheries	Wareham River, Massachusetts.
	Opsanus tau (Linnaeus, 1766)	1875	not recorded	Cataimet, Massachusetts, Squateagus near Woods Hole
	Pandalus leptocerus S.I.Smith, 1881	1875	United States Fish Commission	off Martha's Vineyard, southwest ledge
	Polysiphonia urceolata (Lightfoot ex Dillwyn) Greville	1875	B. E. Livingston	Woods Hole, Butlers Point
	Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758)	1875	United States Fish Commission	Nobska Beach
	Tringa solitaria solitaria A.Wilson, 1813	1878	Newell A. Eddy	North Falmouth
	Polysiphonia harveyi J.W.Bailey	1879	Collector unknown
	Cortinarius collinitus (Sow. ex Fr.) Fr.	1899	H. Webster	Wareham
	Euspilotus conformis (J.E.LeConte, 1845)	1899	not recorded	Marion
	Hypocaccus dimidiatipennis (J.E.LeConte, 1824)	1899	not recorded	Marion

All 2,026 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Swifts Beach: 6 past producers. 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.

Every working recorded in Plymouth 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 615577. 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.