water · official boundary
South Bay (historical)
A bay entered on the federal register of geographic names as feature 613001 in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The name is the one the United States Board on Geographic Names has recorded; what the place is called locally is filed separately as an attested claim.
A bay entered on the federal register of geographic names as feature 613001 in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The name is the one the United States Board on Geographic Names has recorded; what the place is called locally is filed separately as an attested claim.
Place
official layer
An official boundary, promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it. It is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer.
- Type
- water
- Authority
- United States Board on Geographic Names
- Within
- Boston
- GNIS feature
613001
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:entity:south-bay-historical-2
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/place/south-bay-historical-2
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/place/south-bay-historical-2.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- USGS Geographic Names Information System — Domestic Names, Massachusetts — source of record
- Licence
- United States Government Work — public domain (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- 613001
- Attribution
- United States Geological Survey
- Rights as stated
- A work of the United States government; not subject to copyright protection within the United States (17 U.S.C. § 105).
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the Domestic Names file for Massachusetts from the USGS staged-products endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | decompress | inflated the pipe-delimited names member from the ZIP container | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 3 | filter | selected features in Suffolk County or mapped on a Boston quadrangle, by the federal record's own county and map fields | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 4 | normalize | the federal feature name became the record title unaltered; the decimal coordinates were carried across as a point, not a boundary | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |