West Abington, 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
• 1936 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Whitman 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 Whitman quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 507 fires within 5 miles of West Abington between 2005 and 2020, burning about 213 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 8 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:

• Abington
• Montello
• Brockton
• Whitman
• Auburnville
• Beaver

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Museums hold 889 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Abington between 1836 and 1975: 464 Plantae, 239 Fungi, 171 Animalia, 12 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), A. A. Eaton, 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Carex trisperma Dewey	1836	J. W. Robbins
	Hypnum curvifolium Hedw.	1851	W. L. Russell	Hingham
	Lobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm.	1851	J. L. Russell
	Buellia alboatra (Hoffm.) Th.Fr.	1852	Edward Tuckerman
	Biatora ochrophaea Tuck.	1853	Russell	Hingham
	Lecidea chloropolia Fr.	1853	J. L. Russell	Hingham
	Opegrapha stictica (Durieu & Mont.) Nyl.	1853	J. L. Russell	Hingham
	Parmelia elegans (Link) Ach.	1856	not recorded	Hingham
	Chamberlainia salebrosa (Hoffm. ex F.Weber & D.Mohr) H.Rob.	1857	T. P. James	Randolph
	Dendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1899	Arthur C. Dyke	Bridgewater
	Glyceria fluitans (L.) R.Br.	1899	E. F. Williams
	Juglans cinerea L.	1899	Nathaniel T. Kidder	Blue Hills Reservation, Bouncing Brook Path

All 889 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of West Abington: 8 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 National Weather Service names West Abington in 1 storm report between 2020 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 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 617844. 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.