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

Tississa, Massachusetts

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1994. It stands in West Tisbury town. It lies in ZIP code area 02575. It lies in Willow Tree Bottom. The Survey maps it on the Tisbury Great Pond quadrangle.

Tississa within Dukes County

Then and now

1887 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Tississa, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Tississa, 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

6 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Tississa between 2015 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
9 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 May 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control5011032
10 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control5006779
6 April 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control5006749
21 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dukes County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 5,496 shown

Museums hold 5,496 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tississa between 1828 and 1975: 3,399 Animalia, 1,574 Plantae, 276 Chromista, 188 Unrecorded, 44 Fungi, 15 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A AND P STARRETT, A. B. Hervey, A. B. Seymour 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 Tipularia discolor, not of this specimenTipularia discolor (Pursh) Nutt.1828OakesMartha's Vineyard
A photograph of the species Actinococcus subcutaneus, not of this specimenActinococcus subcutaneus (Lyngbye ex Hornemann) Rosenvinge1871W. G. FarlowGay Head
A photograph of the species Anguilla rostrata, not of this specimenAnguilla rostrata (Lesueur, 1817)1871U.S. Fish CommissionVineyard Sound
A photograph of the species Astyris lunata, not of this specimenAstyris lunata (Say, 1826)1871United States Fish CommissionGreat Harbor, Gay Head [=Aquinnah]
Callithamnion plumula (J.Ellis) Lyngbye1871W. G. FarlowMartha's Vineyard, Gay Head
A photograph of the species Chaetomorpha linum, not of this specimenChaetomorpha linum (O.F.Müll.) Kütz.1871W. G. FarlowMartha's Vineyard, Gay Head
A photograph of the species Chaetomorpha melagonium, not of this specimenChaetomorpha melagonium (F.Weber & D.Mohr) Kützing1871W. G. FarlowMartha's Vineyard, Gay Head
A photograph of the species Coccotylus Kützing, not of this specimenCoccotylus Kützing, 18431871W. G. FarlowGay Head
Cottidae1871U.S. Fish Commission
A photograph of the species Alosa pseudoharengus, not of this specimenAlosa pseudoharengus (Wilson, 1811)1899not recordedMassachusetts, Katama Bay near Edgartown
A photograph of the species Centropristis striata, not of this specimenCentropristis striata (Linnaeus, 1758)1899B. BeanMenemsha Bight
A photograph of the species Cepaea hortensis, not of this specimenCepaea hortensis (O.F.Müller, 1774)1899Reid, Rev G D Prime, HenryMartha's Vineyard, Oak Bluffs

All 5,496 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
Quansoo0.8 miles34
Nabs Corner1.9 miles34
West Tisbury2.0 miles33
North Tisbury3.5 miles33
Christian Town5.0 miles33
Chilmark5.0 miles33
Lamberts Cove5.6 miles33
Longview5.7 miles33

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 Q122570936The 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 616247. 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.