West Wareham, Massachusetts

West Wareham grew from 2,064 to 2,224 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 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1885 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.

• 1885 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1916 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1938 USGS Snipatuit Pond quadrangle1:24000
• 1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000
• 1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000
• 1942 USGS Snipatuit Pond quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS Snipatuit Pond quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS Snipatuit Pond 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
• 1949 USGS Snipatuit Pond quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS Snipatuit Pond quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Snipatuit Pond quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Snipatuit Pond quadrangle1:24000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1977 USGS Snipatuit Pond quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Snipatuit Pond quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of West Wareham between 2015 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 2 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:

• Five Corners
• Tremont
• Douglas Corner
• South Wareham
• Pine Tree Village
• Briarwood Beach

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Museums hold 1,983 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Wareham between 1825 and 1975: 973 Animalia, 585 Plantae, 328 Fungi, 66 Chromista, 18 Bacteria, 10 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. C. Mathieson, A. H. Moore 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
	Juncus greenei Oakes & Tuck.	1825	W. Oakes	Plymouth
	Baptisia tinctoria (L.) R.Br.	1837	J. Blake
	Amaranthus hybridus L.	1855	not recorded
	Clethra alnifolia L.	1855	not recorded
	Euthamia lanceolata (L.) G.L.Nesom	1855	not recorded
	Persicaria pensylvanica (L.) Small	1855	not recorded
	Stachys hyssopifolia Michx.	1855	not recorded
	Chilomycterus geometricus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)	1860	unknown	Buzzards Bay
	Cortinarius collinitus (Sow. ex Fr.) Fr.	1899	H. Webster	Wareham
	Euspilotus conformis (J.E.LeConte, 1845)	1899	not recorded	Marion
	Hypocaccus dimidiatipennis (J.E.LeConte, 1824)	1899	not recorded	Marion
	Limacella illinita (Fr.) Murrill	1899	H. Webster

All 1,983 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of West Wareham: 4 past producers. None of them 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 Wareham in 1 storm report between 2011 and 2011: 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 614499. 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.