Bridgewater, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1885 1994

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.

• 1885 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1916 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1937 USGS Middleboro quadrangle1:24000
• 1940 USGS Bridgewater quadrangle1:31680
• 1940 USGS Bridgewater quadrangle1:31680
• 1940 USGS Bridgewater quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000
• 1942 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:125000
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Bridgewater quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Bridgewater quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Bridgewater quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Bridgewater quadrangle1:24000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1977 USGS Bridgewater quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Bridgewater quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Bridgewater quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS New Bedford quadrangle1:100000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Bridgewater between 2004 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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:

• Curtisville
• Elmwood
• Stanley
• Paper Mill Village
• South Bridgewater
• Eastville

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Museums hold 767 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bridgewater between 1855 and 1975: 390 Plantae, 222 Animalia, 147 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour, A. K. Harrison 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
	Condylura cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)	1855	Preparator(s): Edwin V. Komarek	Middleboro
	Microtus pennsylvanicus pennsylvanicus (Ord, 1815)	1855	John W. Jenks	Middleboro
	Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque, 1818)	1855	John W. Jenks	Middleboro
	Arethusa bulbosa L.	1899	J. Murdoch, Jr.	Middleborough
	Carex comosa Boott	1899	J. Murdoch, Jr.	Middleborough
	Carex crinita Lam.	1899	J. Murdoch, Jr.	Middleborough
	Carex folliculata L.	1899	J. Murdoch, Jr.	Middleborough
	Carex merritt-fernaldii Mack.	1899	J. Murdoch, Jr.	Middleborough
	Carex virescens Muhl. ex Willd.	1899	J. Murdoch, Jr.	Middleborough
	Dendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1899	Arthur C. Dyke	Bridgewater
	Epilobium latifolium L.	1899	J. Murdoch, Jr.	Middleborough
	Juncus effusus L.	1899	J. Murdoch, Jr.	Middleborough

All 767 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Bridgewater: 7 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 Plymouth County

The National Weather Service names Bridgewater in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 heavy rain. 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 Plymouth 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 613482. 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.