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West Tisbury, Massachusetts

33 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 stands on Mill Brook. The Survey maps it on the Vineyard Haven quadrangle. 3,555 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 36 feet above sea level.

West Tisbury within Dukes County

Population over time

2 figures

West Tisbury grew from 2,740 to 3,555 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,740
20203,555+815 (+30%)

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 West Tisbury, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of West Tisbury, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

33 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

14 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of West Tisbury between 2015 and 2020, burning about 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control5011586
24 May 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control5011032
2 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
10 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
10 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control5009643

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dukes County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 12,484 shown

Museums hold 12,484 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Tisbury between 1828 and 1975: 8,202 Animalia, 3,051 Plantae, 864 Chromista, 195 Unrecorded, 86 Bacteria, 77 Fungi, 9 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A AND P STARRETT, A., A. B. Hervey 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
Specimen of Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn.Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn.1900A.B. Seymour
A photograph of the species Tipularia discolor, not of this specimenTipularia discolor (Pursh) Nutt.1828OakesMartha's Vineyard
A photograph of the species Polysiphonia flexicaulis, not of this specimenPolysiphonia flexicaulis (Harvey) F.S.Collins1839unknownWoods Hole
A photograph of the species Ectocarpus littoralis, not of this specimenEctocarpus littoralis (L.) Lyngb.1841B. F. D. RunkWoods Hole, Nobska Point, wash
A photograph of the species Alosa aestivalis, not of this specimenAlosa aestivalis (Mitchill, 1814)1852not recordedWood's Hole, Massachusetts.
A photograph of the species Clupea harengus, not of this specimenClupea harengus Linnaeus, 17581852not recordedWood's Hole, Massachusetts.
A photograph of the species Menidia menidia, not of this specimenMenidia menidia (Linnaeus, 1766)1852not recordedWood's Hole, Massachusetts.
A photograph of the species Prionotus evolans, not of this specimenPrionotus evolans (Linnaeus, 1766)1852not recordedWood's Hole, Massachusetts.
A photograph of the species Aluterus schoepfii, not of this specimenAluterus schoepfii (Walbaum, 1792)1860Smithsonian InstitutionWoods Hole
A photograph of the species Anguilla rostrata, not of this specimenAnguilla rostrata (Lesueur, 1817)1860Smithsonian InstitutionWoods Hole
A photograph of the species Acanthurus bahianus, not of this specimenAcanthurus bahianus Castelnau, 18551899not recordedWoods Hole, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Alosa pseudoharengus, not of this specimenAlosa pseudoharengus (Wilson, 1811)1899not recordedMassachusetts, Katama Bay near Edgartown

All 12,484 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 1999

The National Weather Service names West Tisbury in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2009: 2 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2009HailWest Tisbury-Quarter to hen egg size hail fell on Martha's Vineyard.
July 2006HailWest Tisbury-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindWest Tisbury-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dukes County

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
Nabs Corner0.8 miles34
North Tisbury1.7 miles33
Tississa2.0 miles34
Quansoo2.2 miles34
Christian Town3.1 miles33
Lamberts Cove3.9 miles33
Longview4.2 miles33
Chilmark4.6 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.

Wikipedia article on West TisburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2418364The 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 616152. 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.

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.