Baptist Corners, Massachusetts

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.

1887 1990

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.

• 1887 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1932 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:48000
• 1935 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1937 USGS Mt Grace quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Mt Grace quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1942 USGS Keene quadrangle1:125000
• 1945 USGS Mt Grace quadrangle1:24000
• 1946 USGS Mt Grace quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Mt Grace quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Mt Grace quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Mt Grace quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1977 USGS Mt Grace quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1990 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings

History of Worcester County, Massachusetts : with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men., published 1889 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Baptist Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 2 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• West Royalston
• Fryeville
• Athol
• Buffumville
• Camp Caravan
• Cardinal Heights

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 137 specimens collected within 10 miles of Baptist Corners between 1856 and 1974: 55 Plantae, 48 Animalia, 34 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. S. Goodale, S.F. Potsubay, F.R. St. John, Ahles, H. E., Ahles, H.E. 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Osmunda regalis L.	1900	Bates, J.A.	Royalston.
	Pyxine sorediata (Ach.) Mont.	1856	Charles C. Frost
	Solidago uliginosa Nutt.	1896	G. T. Hastings	Tully. Tully Lake.
	Botrychium dissectum Spreng.	1898	not recorded
	Juncus nodosus L.	1898	G. T. Hastings	Tully Lake.
	Antennaria howellii subsp. canadensis (Greene) R.J.Bayer	1899	Bates, J.A.
	Bulbostylis capillaris (L.) Kunth ex C.B.Clarke	1899	J. A. Bates
	Carex normalis Mack.	1899	not recorded
	Carex pallescens L.	1899	J. A. Bates
	Carex radiata (Wahlenb.) Small	1899	J. A. Bates
	Cyperus lupulinus var. macilentus (Fernald) A.Haines	1899	not recorded
	Lindernia dubia var. dubia	1899	not recorded

All 137 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Baptist Corners: 5 occurrences, 4 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Mica, Talc-Soapstone, Mica, Feldspar. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Worcester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baptist Corners in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Worcester County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609375. 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.