Truro, Massachusetts

Truro grew from 2,003 to 2,454 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

1887 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.

• 1887 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Cape Cod Bay quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:24000
• 1944 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:31680
• 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
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:24000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:25000
• 1972 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Wellfleet quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Truro Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Truro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. None 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.

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:

• Truro Station (historical)
• Pond Village
• Beach Point
• North Truro
• Pilgrim Heights
• South Truro

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,961 specimens collected within 10 miles of Truro between 1827 and 1975: 2,515 Animalia, 235 Plantae, 96 Unrecorded, 57 Chromista, 50 Fungi, 8 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. K. Harrison, A. K. Harrison, G.C.H., A. M. Ottley 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
	Aralia hispida Vent.	1827	A. M. Ottley
	Brevoortia tyrannus (Latrobe, 1802)	1853	Atwood, Nathaniel E.	Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
	Pseudopleuronectes americanus (Walbaum, 1792)	1853	Atwood, Nathaniel E.	Cape Cod, Massachusetts
	Scophthalmus aquosus (Mitchill, 1815)	1856	not recorded	Provincetown
	Ammodytes americanus DeKay, 1842	1859	Weinland, David Friedrich	Cape Cod, Massachusetts
	Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766)	1859	Ordway, A.	Cape Cod, Massachusetts
	Aspidophoroides monopterygius (Bloch, 1786)	1860	Smithsonian Institution	Provincetown
	Prionotus carolinus (Linnaeus, 1771)	1860	Harvard Museum	Provincetown
	Stenotomus chrysops (Linnaeus, 1766)	1860	William Bemis	Cape Cod Bay, Wellfleet Harbor
	Paralichthys oblongus (Mitchill, 1815)	1862	MCZ team	Cape Cod, Massachusetts
	Carex foenea Willd.	1864	W. P. Alcott	Wellfleet
	Morone americana (Gmelin, 1789)	1864	MCZ team	Cape Cod, rivers, Massachusetts

All 2,961 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Truro: 1 past producer, 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 Barnstable County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Truro in 1 storm report between 2012 and 2012: 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Barnstable 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 616834. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.