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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Wood End, Massachusetts

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Provincetown town. It lies in ZIP code area 02657. It stands on Telegraph Hill. The Survey maps it on the Provincetown quadrangle.

Wood End within Barnstable County

Then and now

1887 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wood End, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Wood End, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

36 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.

In the 1890 county history

30 words on this township

The county history of 1890 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Provincetown Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Provincetown Town - 30 words.

Fires nearby

21 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Wood End between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8 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/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
14 September 2020Fireworksunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
14 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreRACE POINT SOUTH BLOWOUT FIRE
11 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreHERRCOVE
6 August 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreARTSDUNE
4 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreBEECH FOREST FIRE_1738
3 July 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreBREAKPROVI
26 July 2004Smokingunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreHRCOVEDUNE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 4,450 shown

Museums hold 4,450 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wood End between 1827 and 1975: 4,095 Animalia, 146 Plantae, 98 Unrecorded, 67 Chromista, 44 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. K. Harrison, A. K. Harrison, G.C.H., A. M. Ottley 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
A photograph of the species Aralia hispida, not of this specimenAralia hispida Vent.1827A. M. Ottley
A photograph of the species Brevoortia tyrannus, not of this specimenBrevoortia tyrannus (Latrobe, 1802)1853Atwood, Nathaniel E.Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Pseudopleuronectes americanus, not of this specimenPseudopleuronectes americanus (Walbaum, 1792)1853Atwood, Nathaniel E.Cape Cod, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Scophthalmus aquosus, not of this specimenScophthalmus aquosus (Mitchill, 1815)1856not recordedProvincetown
A photograph of the species Ammodytes americanus, not of this specimenAmmodytes americanus DeKay, 18421859Weinland, David FriedrichCape Cod, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Pomatomus saltatrix, not of this specimenPomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766)1859Ordway, A.Cape Cod, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Aspidophoroides monopterygius, not of this specimenAspidophoroides monopterygius (Bloch, 1786)1860Smithsonian InstitutionProvincetown
A photograph of the species Prionotus carolinus, not of this specimenPrionotus carolinus (Linnaeus, 1771)1860Harvard MuseumProvincetown
A photograph of the species Paralichthys oblongus, not of this specimenParalichthys oblongus (Mitchill, 1815)1862MCZ teamCape Cod, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Carex foenea, not of this specimenCarex foenea Willd.1864W. P. AlcottWellfleet
A photograph of the species Morone americana, not of this specimenMorone americana (Gmelin, 1789)1864MCZ teamCape Cod, rivers, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Pholis gunnellus, not of this specimenPholis gunnellus (Linnaeus, 1758)1864SmithProvincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

All 4,450 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Provincetown2.7 miles36
Mayflower Heights3.6 miles36
Beach Point3.8 miles36
Pilgrim Heights4.6 miles33
North Truro5.0 miles33
Pond Village5.1 miles33
Truro Station (historical)6.6 miles34
South Truro7.1 miles34

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 616670. 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.