Town Hall, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1885 1984

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.

• 1885 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1920 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:24000
• 1940 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:31680
• 1940 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:31680
• 1940 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:25000
• 1978 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:25000
• 1978 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Town Hall between 2015 and 2020, burning about 61 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:

• Camp Wampatuck
• Riverwind Estates
• South Hanson
• Camp Kiwanis
• Wingbrook Estates
• Burrage

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Museums hold 753 specimens collected within 10 miles of Town Hall between 1849 and 1975: 258 Plantae, 249 Fungi, 239 Animalia, 5 Protozoa, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by -- Russell, A., A. A. Eaton 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
	Trientalis borealis Raf.	1900	not recorded
	Pseudevernia consocians (Vainio) Hale & W.L.Culb.	1849	-- Russell	Kingston
	Baptisia tinctoria (L.) R.Br.	1853	not recorded
	Ionactis linariifolia (L.) Greene	1855	not recorded
	Polygala polygama var. obtusata Chodat	1855	not recorded
	Potamogeton pusillus subsp. tenuissimus (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) R.R.Haynes & Hellq.	1868	J W Robbins	Marshfield
	Rhynchospora macrostachya Torr. ex A.Gray	1870	Booth, W.	South Weymouth
	Dasychira obliquata Grote & Robinson, 1866	1873	P. Parallela
	Myosotis laxa Lehm.	1874	H. G. Jesup	South Weymouth
	Dendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1899	Arthur C. Dyke	Bridgewater
	Glyceria fluitans (L.) R.Br.	1899	E. F. Williams
	Lysimachia quadrifolia L.	1899	E. F. Williams

All 753 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Town Hall: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 614014. 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.