Whitman, 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

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

• Commonwealth Shoe and Leather Co.listed 2014
• Whitman Parklisted 2004

Businesses named in the fire insurance atlases 12 of 24 shown

• Methodist Episcopal ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1905 to 1950
• Advent Christian ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1905 to 1919
• Corthell SchoolSchool, in the atlas of 1905 to 1919
• Linden HotelHotel, in the atlas of 1896 to 1905
• Mile N.E.of Post OfficeIce House, in the atlas of 1911 to 1950
• Dyer SchoolSchool, in the atlas of 1905 to 1911
• First Baptist ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1905 to 1919
• Fourth Congregational ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1905 to 1919
• Pearson & Co., Machine ShopMachine Shop, in the atlas of 1905 to 1911
• Abington & Whitman Ice Co., Ice HoIce House, in the atlas of 1911
• Abington & Whitman, Ice HouseIce House, in the atlas of 1919
• Bates SchoolSchool, in the atlas of 1905

Every atlas business in Plymouth County

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, 9 printings
• 1920 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1977 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:25000, 3 printings
• 1977 USGS Whitman quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Including an Extensive Family Register, published 1840; History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Including an Extensive Family Register, published 1897 names this settlement in its chapter on Whitman Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 447 fires within 5 miles of Whitman between 2005 and 2020, burning about 191 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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
• Auburnville
• Beaver
• Brockton
• Campello
• Montello

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 682 specimens collected within 10 miles of Whitman between 1851 and 1975: 274 Plantae, 244 Fungi, 150 Animalia, 12 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour, A. Clark 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
	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
	Rhynchospora macrostachya Torr. ex A.Gray	1870	Booth, W.	South Weymouth
	Dendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1899	Arthur C. Dyke	Bridgewater
	Glyceria fluitans (L.) R.Br.	1899	E. F. Williams
	Lysimachia quadrifolia L.	1899	E. F. Williams

All 682 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Whitman: 5 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitman in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 lightning, 2 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 613618. 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.