Wigwam Beach, Massachusetts

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 New Bedford quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fairhaven quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fairhaven quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:62500
• 1940 USGS Sconticut Neck quadrangle1:31680
• 1940 USGS Sconticut Neck quadrangle1:31680
• 1940 USGS Sconticut Neck quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000
• 1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000
• 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
• 1948 USGS Sconticut Neck quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Sconticut Neck quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Sconticut Neck quadrangle1:24000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Sconticut Neck quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Sconticut Neck quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Sconticut Neck quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Wigwam Beach between 2015 and 2020, burning about 13 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.

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:

• Harbor View
• Knollmere
• Pope Beach
• East Fairhaven
• Nasketucket
• Fairhaven

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Museums hold 2,168 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wigwam Beach between 1824 and 1975: 863 Animalia, 627 Plantae, 561 Fungi, 87 Chromista, 23 Bacteria, 7 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Gridley, 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
	Gamochaeta purpurea (L.) Cabrera	1824	T. A. Greene
	Lythrum salicaria L.	1831	T. A. Greene
	Mentha aquatica L.	1831	Collector unknown	New Bedford. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
	Trypethelium virens Tuck.	1848	ex herb. Oakes	New Bedford.
	Endocarpon pusillum Hedw.	1858	H. Willey	Fort Phoenix. Fairhaven.
	Menegazzia terebrata (Hoffm.) A.Massal.	1860	H. Willey	New Bedford
	Abrothallus parmeliarum (Sommerf.) Nyl., 1869	1862	Willey H.	Weymouth, New Bedford
	Agyrium rufum (Pers.) Fr.	1862	Willey Henry	New Bedford
	Anaptychia palmatula (Michx.) Vain., 1899	1862	H. Willey	New Bedford.
	Anisomeridium polypori (Ellis & Everh.) M.E.Barr	1862	H. Willey	New Bedford
	Anzia colpodes (Ach.) Stizenb.	1862	H. Willey	New Bedford.
	Cladonia apodocarpa Robb.	1862	H. Willey	New Bedford.

All 2,168 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wigwam Beach: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Bristol 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 614888. 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.