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Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Yarmouth town. It lies in ZIP code area 02675. It stands on Prospect Hill. The Survey maps it on the Dennis quadrangle. 5,403 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 52 feet above sea level.

Yarmouth Port within Barnstable County

Population over time

2 figures

Yarmouth Port grew from 5,320 to 5,403 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
20105,320
20205,403+83 (+2%)

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 Yarmouth Port, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Yarmouth Port, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

31 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

141 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Yarmouth Port between 2015 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined71
Debris and open burning39
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking5
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,695 shown

Museums hold 3,695 specimens collected within 10 miles of Yarmouth Port between 1866 and 1975: 2,376 Animalia, 949 Plantae, 230 Fungi, 127 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 4 Bacteria, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. R. Hodgdon, A. R. Hodgdon; H. K. Svenson;D. Conant;J. Wicks 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 Aecidium Pers.Aecidium Pers.1900Seymour, Arthur Blissnear Shoot-flying Hill [sic; Shootflying Hill], Hyannis, Mass. [Massachusetts]
Specimen of Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.1900A. B. SeymourHyannis
Specimen of Uromyces lineolatus (Desm.) J.Schröt.Uromyces lineolatus (Desm.) J.Schröt.1900W. G. Farlow
A photograph of the species Calidris alba, not of this specimenCalidris alba (Pallas, 1764)1866not recordedCape Cod
A photograph of the species Alosa mediocris, not of this specimenAlosa mediocris (Mitchill, 1814)1871MCZ teamBrewster, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Ceramium diaphanum (Lightf.) Roth1873LuskCotuit Port
A photograph of the species Ceramium rubrum, not of this specimenCeramium rubrum C.Agardh1873LuskCotuit Port
A photograph of the species Grinnellia americana, not of this specimenGrinnellia americana (C.Agardh) Harv.1873LuskCotuit Port
A photograph of the species Sphacelaria cirrosa, not of this specimenSphacelaria cirrosa (Roth) C.Agardh1873LuskCotuit Port
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1874Collector(s): William BrewsterOsterville
A photograph of the species Amphitrite ornata, not of this specimenAmphitrite ornata (Leidy, 1855)1875Verrill, A. E.; Merriam, C. H.Barnstable
A photograph of the species Ampithoe rubricata, not of this specimenAmpithoe rubricata (Montagu, 1808)1875U.S. Fish CommissionBarnstable

All 3,695 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Yarmouth Port: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hyannis PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hyannis Sand and Gravel IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Barnstable 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
Yarmouth Station0.5 miles34
Yarmouth1.1 miles31
Cummaquid1.3 miles34
Cobbs Village2.3 miles34
Barnstable2.7 miles34
North Dennis3.0 miles31
New Boston3.2 miles31
West Yarmouth3.6 miles31

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 Yarmouth PortAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q944249The 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 615805. 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.