West Hingham, 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 Weymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:31680
• 1947 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 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
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:25000
• 1971 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000
• 1984 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 281 fires within 5 miles of West Hingham between 2015 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

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:

• Fort Hill
• Hingham
• Crow Point
• Hingham Center
• Cole Corner
• Finnville

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Museums hold 5,333 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Hingham between 1832 and 1975: 3,486 Plantae, 910 Animalia, 520 Fungi, 359 Chromista, 39 Unrecorded, 13 Protozoa, 6 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), A Loveridge, A Phelps Wyman 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
	Pallavicinia lyellii (Hook.) Gray	1900	Frad G. Floyd	edge of Tumble Pond, Stang Brook, Brook Reservation
	Cornus sericea subsp. sericea	1832	Nathaniel T. Kidder	Milton, Brook Road
	Carex echinata subsp. echinata	1834	not recorded
	Carex trisperma Dewey	1836	J. W. Robbins
	Salicornia bigelovii Torr.	1840	Welle, J.	Hull
	Salsola kali L.	1840	Welle, J.	Hull
	Cladonia rangiferina (L.) Weber	1844	J. L. Russell	Hingham
	Silene vulgaris (Moench) Garcke	1844	not recorded
	Carex acutiformis Ehrh.	1847	Boott, M.	South Boston
	Lopadium disciforme (Flot.) Kullh.	1848	J. L. Russell
	Acer nigrum F.Michx.	1899	Nathaniel T. Kidder	Milton, off Randolph Avenue
	Andrena braccata Viereck, 1907	1899	P.G. Bolster	Milton

All 5,333 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of West Hingham: 9 producers, 8 past producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. 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 Hingham in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 613444. 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.