HomeMy WebLinkAboutSmiths Creek mapsSMITHS CREEK PROPERTY, WEST BARNSTABLE MA
FY25 CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROPOSAL
ORENDA WILDLIFE LAND TRUST, INC. (5.5 acres)
USGS Topographic Locus (564 & 0 Main Street)
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SMITHS CREEK PROPERTY, WEST BARNSTABLE MA
FY25 CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROPOSAL
ORENDA WILDLIFE LAND TRUST, INC. (5.5 acres)
Town Assessing Map Locus (564 & 0 Main Street)
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SMITHS CREEK PROPERTY, WEST BARNSTABLE MA
FY25 CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROPOSAL
ORENDA WILDLIFE LAND TRUST, INC. (5.5 acres)
Protected Open Space Context (564 & 0 Main Street)
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GREAT MARSH OWNED BY TOWN OF BARNSTABLE
FOR CONSERVATION
17-ACRE CR
held by The
Trustees
The Trustees of Reservations
Barnstable
Land Trust
SMITHS CREEK PROPERTY, WEST BARNSTABLE MA
FY25 CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROPOSAL
ORENDA WILDLIFE LAND TRUST, INC. (5.5 acres)
TNC Terrestrial Resilience (564 & 0 Main Street)
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SMITHS CREEK PROPERTY, WEST BARNSTABLE MA
FY25 CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROPOSAL
ORENDA WILDLIFE LAND TRUST, INC. (5.5 acres)
Sandy Neck Area of Critical Environmental Concern
(564 & 0 Main Street)
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NOTE: Approximately 2 of the 5.5 acres
in the property are within the ACEC.
SMITHS CREEK PROPERTY, WEST BARNSTABLE MA
FY25 CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROPOSAL
ORENDA WILDLIFE LAND TRUST, INC. (5.5 acres)
US FEMA Flood Hazard Map (564 & 0 Main Street)
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NOTE: Approximately 2 of the 5.5
acres in the property are within the
100-year floodplain.
SMITHS CREEK PROPERTY, WEST BARNSTABLE MA
FY25 CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROPOSAL
ORENDA WILDLIFE LAND TRUST, INC. (5.5 acres)
Massachusetts BioMap Context (564 & 0 Main Street)
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NOTE: Almost all of the 5.5 acres in the property is
located within the BioMap Core Habitat or Critical Natural
Landscape, the highest ranked designations in the state.
SMITHS CREEK PROPERTY, WEST BARNSTABLE MA
FY25 CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROPOSAL
ORENDA WILDLIFE LAND TRUST, INC. (5.5 acres)
Mass. DEP Wetland Resources (564 & 0 Main Street)
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NOTE: Almost 2 of the 5.5 acres in the property contains
freshwater or brackish vegetated wetland surrounding
Smiths Creek.
SMITHS CREEK PROPERTY, WEST BARNSTABLE MA
FY25 CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROPOSAL
ORENDA WILDLIFE LAND TRUST, INC. (5.5 acres)
Significant Forest Land Context (564 & 0 Main Street)
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NOTE: In the upland, 1.7 of the 5.5 acres in the property is considered Forest Land
of Statewide Importance and 1.3 acres is considered Prime 2 Forest Land.The
wetland includes some Statewide Importance forest.
“Using primarily the NRCS/MassGIS Soils data,forest land was classified into nine different cate-
gories based on potential average timber productivity of white pine and red oak “…per acre per
year at culmination of mean annual increment.Site index values are at age 50.”Other data sets
were used to refine this classification,including aspect,land cover,riparian,slope position,wet-
lands,hydrologic soil association and unique areas.”MassGIS
SMITHS CREEK PROPERTY, WEST BARNSTABLE MA
FY25 CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROPOSAL
ORENDA WILDLIFE LAND TRUST, INC. (5.5 acres)
Climate and Storm Vulnerability (564 & 0 Main Street)
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NOTE: The property is considered vulnerable to storm
surge owing to location in the flood plain of Smiths Creek.
SMITHS CREEK PROPERTY, WEST BARNSTABLE MA
FY25 CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROPOSAL
ORENDA WILDLIFE LAND TRUST, INC. (5.5 acres)
Scenic Value Significance (564 & 0 Main Street)
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NOTE: The property includes
65 feet of frontage on Route 6A.
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NOTE: The property lies within the
Noteworthy Landscape, of which only 5%
of Massachusetts was identified by the
State in 1981. It is part of the Barnstable
Great Marsh Unit.
SMITHS CREEK PROPERTY, WEST BARNSTABLE MA
FY25 CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROPOSAL
ORENDA WILDLIFE LAND TRUST, INC. (5.5 acres)
Historic Value Significance (564 & 0 Main Street)
NOTE: All of the property is located within the Old Kings Highway Regional
Historic District, established 1973, the largest such district in the US.
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1.5 acres
SMITHS CREEK PROPERTY, WEST BARNSTABLE MA
FY25 CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROPOSAL
ORENDA WILDLIFE LAND TRUST, INC. (5.5 acres)
Composite Property Boundaries (564 & 0 Main Street)
(see full plans of record following)
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Parcel 1 of 2
3.96 acres
SMITHS CREEK PROPERTY, WEST BARNSTABLE MA
FY25 CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROPOSAL
ORENDA WILDLIFE LAND TRUST, INC. (5.5 acres)
Survey Plans of Record (1 of 2) (564 & 0 Main Street)
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Parcel 2 of 2
1.5 acres
SMITHS CREEK PROPERTY, WEST BARNSTABLE MA
FY25 CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROPOSAL
ORENDA WILDLIFE LAND TRUST, INC. (6 acres)
Survey Plans of Record (2 of 2) (564 & 0 Main Street)
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SMITHS CREEK PROPERTY, WEST BARNSTABLE MA
FY25 CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROPOSAL
ORENDA WILDLIFE LAND TRUST, INC. (6 acres)
Proposed Waterview House Site (564 & 0 Main Street)
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SMITHS CREEK PROPERTY, WEST BARNSTABLE MA
FY25 CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROPOSAL
ORENDA WILDLIFE LAND TRUST, INC. (6 acres)
2021 Aerial Photograph (564 & 0 Main Street)
NOTE: All of the property is thickly forested with a mix of black and white oak,
red maple, tupelo, American beech, black cherry American holly, pitch pine.
SMITHS CREEK PROPERTY, WEST BARNSTABLE MA
FY25 CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROPOSAL
ORENDA WILDLIFE LAND TRUST, INC. (6 acres)
2024 Site Photographs (564 & 0 Main Street)
PHOTO#1. The locus property shows as the upland knoll across the
mouth of Smiths Creek (foreground).
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PHOTO#2. Smiths Creek flows the length of the
northern sideline of the property.
PHOTO#3.
Clearing on
knoll at north
end of the
property could
be potential
house site.
PHOTO#4.
Mixed pines,
oaks and
maples in the
upland.