Seconsett Island Massachusetts Map

About Seconsett Island, Massachusetts

Seconsett Island is a locality in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a small community with a population of 98. The population density is 367.4 people per km². Seconsett Island is located at 41.5662°N, 70.5117°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 02649.

Seconsett Island emerges from the brackish margins where the Little River spills its quiet, silt-heavy burden into the salt-scrubbed expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies 5.4 miles east of Falmouth, MA (from Falmouth, MA: bearing 79°T), and is situated 5.9 miles south-southwest of Mashpee. The land here is a low-slung geography of tidal mud and resilient grasses, defined by the constant, rhythmic negotiation between the encroaching tide and the solid earth. Across the water, the silhouette of Washburn Island sits like a jagged, dark tooth against the horizon, while twenty-seven miles to the west, the Monomoy Island Dunes rise in a faint, shimmering haze that suggests a more rugged, ancient world. The air at Seconsett Island carries a permanent, sharp salinity, a cold clarity that seems to bleach the color from the sky and leave the shoreline in shades of slate and pale, sun-bleached bone.

Human presence on this terrain is measured by the slow, seasonal pulse of the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, an institution that preserves the wild, unkempt character of the coastline against the slow creep of modern development. While the nearby East Chop Flats provide a distant, flatter relief, the local economy remains tethered to the water, echoing a history of maritime survival that predates the more manicured settlements of the mainland. The proximity of Moromoesoy Island, a singular, quiet basin of water, anchors the inland view, offering a stillness that contrasts with the restless, churning energy of the nearby Atlantic Ocean. Life here moves in accordance with the shifting light, a literate, solitary existence where the residents observe the turning of the seasons with the same stoic attention once paid by those who first charted these treacherous, shifting shoals.

About This Seconsett Island Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Seconsett Island, Massachusetts. Coordinates: 41.566221, -70.511695. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Seconsett Island includes the ZIP code (02649), telephone area code (339, 351, 413, 508, 617, 774, 781, 857, 978), county seat of Barnstable County (Barnstable), and school district assignment (Mashpee School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.