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Baker Bridge, Massachusetts

48 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lincoln town. It lies in ZIP code area 01773. It stands on Emersons Cliff. The Survey maps it on the Concord quadrangle.

Baker Bridge within Middlesex County

Then and now

1886 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Baker Bridge, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Baker Bridge, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

48 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.

In the 1908 county history

13,190 words on this township

The county history of 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Lincoln Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Lincoln Town - 13,190 words.

Fires nearby

47 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Baker Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1
Natural1

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
5 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
16 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 September 2001Naturalunder an acreMinute Man National Historical ParkFISKEHILL
3 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
26 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
19 July 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,380 shown

Museums hold 1,380 specimens collected within 10 miles of Baker Bridge between 1898 and 1975: 748 Animalia, 340 Plantae, 276 Fungi, 9 Chromista, 4 Protozoa, 2 Bacteria, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & M. D. Feigley 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 Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 18221900not recordedWayland
Aglaospora profusa (Fr.) De Not.1898Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Antennaria howellii, not of this specimenAntennaria howellii subsp. canadensis (Greene) R.J.Bayer1898Williams, E.F.
A photograph of the species Antennaria parlinii, not of this specimenAntennaria parlinii subsp. fallax (Greene) R.J.Bayer & Stebbins1898not recorded
A photograph of the species Antennaria plantaginifolia, not of this specimenAntennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Hook.1898not recorded
A photograph of the species Aquilegia canadensis, not of this specimenAquilegia canadensis L.1898M. I. GunnNatick
A photograph of the species Agaricus brunnescens, not of this specimenAgaricus brunnescens Peck1900Morris, G. E.Waltham
Araiospora pulchra Thaxt.1900Thaxter, RolandStony Brook, Mass. [Massachusetts]
A photograph of the species Betula alleghaniensis, not of this specimenBetula alleghaniensis Britton1900E. F. Williams
A photograph of the species Boletus auriporus, not of this specimenBoletus auriporus Peck1900G. E. Morris
A photograph of the species Boletus badius, not of this specimenBoletus badius (Fr.) Fr.1900G. E. Morris
A photograph of the species Boletus rubropunctus, not of this specimenBoletus rubropunctus Peck1900G. E. Morris

All 1,380 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Baker Bridge: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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
Acton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Acton Pit--Assabet S & GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Acton PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Assabet Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lexington Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Pepperell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Middlesex 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
South Lincoln1.1 miles48
Lincoln1.7 miles48
Nine Acre Corner2.1 miles43
Meriams Corner2.3 miles48
Concord2.3 miles48
Silver Hill2.9 miles48
West Bedford3.6 miles48
Hastings3.7 miles48

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 611755. 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.