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Attleboro Falls, Massachusetts

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1987. It stands in North Attleborough Town City. It lies in ZIP code area 02763. It stands on Scotts Brook. The Survey maps it on the Attleboro quadrangle.

Attleboro Falls within Bristol County

Then and now

1887 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Attleboro Falls, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Attleboro Falls, 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.

Fires nearby

53 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Attleboro Falls between 2015 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Smoking6
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlFOXBORO
27 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLAINVILLE
27 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLAINVILLE
26 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLAINVILLE
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLAINVILLE
23 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLAINVILLE
22 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLAINVILLE
12 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLAINVILLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 422 shown

Museums hold 422 specimens collected within 10 miles of Attleboro Falls between 1844 and 1975: 215 Animalia, 153 Plantae, 54 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Eaton, A. E. Sears, A.H.A. 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 Calla palustris, not of this specimenCalla palustris L.1844Thurber, G.
A photograph of the species Chamaecrista fasciculata, not of this specimenChamaecrista fasciculata (Michx.) Greene1846not recorded
A photograph of the species Apocynum cannabinum, not of this specimenApocynum cannabinum L.1855F. C. SeymourRehoboth
A photograph of the species Coreopsis rosea, not of this specimenCoreopsis rosea Nutt.1871T. C. Porter
A photograph of the species Hypoxis hirsuta, not of this specimenHypoxis hirsuta (L.) Coville1874not recorded
A photograph of the species Empidonax minimus, not of this specimenEmpidonax minimus (W.M.Baird & S.F.Baird, 1843)1877C.P. SnowTaunton, North
A photograph of the species Amaranthus spinosus, not of this specimenAmaranthus spinosus L.1878not recorded
A photograph of the species Eubotrys racemosa, not of this specimenEubotrys racemosa (L.) Nutt.1878Mrs. M. L. Owen
A photograph of the species Pipilo erythrophthalmus, not of this specimenPipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)1879for F. S. WrightRHODE ISLAND: Providence County; Pawtucket
A photograph of the species Symphyotrichum tenuifolium, not of this specimenSymphyotrichum tenuifolium (L.) G.L.Nesom1879W. W. BaileySeekonk river banks, Providence.
A photograph of the species Dendroica discolor, not of this specimenDendroica discolor (Vieillot, 1809)1880Collector(s): Henry Kelso CoalePawtucket
A photograph of the species Deutzia scabra, not of this specimenDeutzia scabra Thunb.1880S. M. Holman, Jr.Attleboro.

All 422 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 21 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Attleboro Falls: 14 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Granite, Bloating Material. 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
Glines & Rhodes Refin.--PlainvilleGold, PGE, SilverPast Producer
Masslite PitClay, StoneProducer
PlainvilleBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary
Simeone Stone CorporationGranitePast ProducerGranite
Wrentham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
MassliteClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Plainville Clay PitClayPast Producer
Adamsdale MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Boro Sand and Stone IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Boro Sand and Stone, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bristol County

Storms nearby

3 since 2017

The National Weather Service names Attleboro Falls in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017Thunderstorm WindAttleboro Falls$1,500At 234 PM EST, a tree was reported down on power lines at the World War One Park off Elmwood Street in North Attleboro.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindAttleboro Falls$500In North Attleboro, there was a tree down on Kelley Blvd.
June 2020FloodAttleboro Falls-In North Attleboro, roadway flooding was reported at Landry Avenue and Kelley Blvd. (Route 152).

Every storm recorded in Bristol 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
North Attleboro1.2 miles36
Attleboro2.4 miles36
Dodgeville3.6 miles36
Attleborough City3.6 miles36
Robinsonville3.9 miles39
Adamsdale4.1 miles36
West Mansfield4.2 miles33
Camp Herbron4.3 miles36

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.

Wikidata item Q122559487The 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 612035. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.