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

Tahanto Beach, Massachusetts

40 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 02559. It stands on Pocasset River. The Survey maps it on the Pocasset quadrangle.

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

40 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

145 since 2001

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Tahanto Beach between 2001 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined59
Debris and open burning23
Smoking23
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3

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
7 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 September 2002Smokingunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWAREHAM
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 September 2015Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control2153398
26 September 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 2,875 shown

Museums hold 2,875 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tahanto Beach between 1791 and 1975: 1,638 Animalia, 765 Plantae, 352 Fungi, 96 Chromista, 13 Bacteria, 7 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. H. Moore, 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Drosera filiformis, not of this specimenDrosera filiformis var. filiformis1791not recorded
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 Chilomycterus geometricus, not of this specimenChilomycterus geometricus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)1860unknownBuzzards Bay
A photograph of the species Esox niger, not of this specimenEsox niger Lesueur, 18181871Agassiz, Jean Louis RodolpheWaquoit/Waqouit Bay, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Nereis megalops, not of this specimenNereis megalops (Verrill, 1873)1871Verrill, A. E.Falmouth. Waquoit Pond
A photograph of the species Nereis pelagica, not of this specimenNereis pelagica Linnaeus, 17581871Verrill, A. E.Falmouth. Waquoit Pond
A photograph of the species Nereis succinea, not of this specimenNereis succinea Leuckart, 18471871Verrill, A. E.Falmouth. Waquoit Pond
A photograph of the species Notomastus luridus, not of this specimenNotomastus luridus Verrill, 18731871Verrill, A. E.Falmouth. Waquoit Pond
A photograph of the species Gobiosoma bosc, not of this specimenGobiosoma bosc (Lacepède, 1800)1872V. Edwards & United States Bureau of FisheriesWareham River, Massachusetts.
A photograph of the species Lycopodiella gilmanii, not of this specimenLycopodiella × gilmanii A.Haines1872not recorded

All 2,875 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Pocasset Station0.5 miles40
Barlows Landing0.7 miles39
North Pocasset0.9 miles40
Pocasset1.0 miles40
Patuisset1.2 miles39
Monument Beach1.4 miles40
South Pocasset1.8 miles40
Gray Gables2.3 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.

Wikidata item Q122543337The 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 617830. 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.