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Bryantville, Massachusetts

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Pembroke town. It lies in ZIP code area 02359. It stands on Queen Brook. The Survey maps it on the Hanover quadrangle.

Bryantville within Plymouth County

Then and now

1885 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bryantville, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Bryantville, surveyed 1885

Topographic sheets covering this place

37 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

160 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Bryantville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined63
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHANSON
8 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHANSON
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHANOVER
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHANOVER
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHANOVER
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHANOVER
5 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLYMPTON
25 September 2015Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWHITMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 856 shown

Museums hold 856 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bryantville between 1849 and 1975: 356 Animalia, 248 Plantae, 231 Fungi, 15 Protozoa, 5 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by -- Russell, A., A. A. Eaton 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 Trientalis borealis Raf.Trientalis borealis Raf.1900not recorded
A photograph of the species Pseudevernia consocians, not of this specimenPseudevernia consocians (Vainio) Hale & W.L.Culb.1849-- RussellKingston
A photograph of the species Baptisia tinctoria, not of this specimenBaptisia tinctoria (L.) R.Br.1853not recorded
A photograph of the species Ionactis linariifolia, not of this specimenIonactis linariifolia (L.) Greene1855not recorded
A photograph of the species Polygala polygama, not of this specimenPolygala polygama var. obtusata Chodat1855not recorded
A photograph of the species Potamogeton pusillus, not of this specimenPotamogeton pusillus subsp. tenuissimus (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) R.R.Haynes & Hellq.1868J W RobbinsMarshfield
A photograph of the species Dasychira obliquata, not of this specimenDasychira obliquata Grote & Robinson, 18661873P. Parallela
Asteraceae1876Collector(s): Elizabeth Emerson AtwaterDuxbury, Standish Hill
Plantae1876Collector(s): Elizabeth Emerson AtwaterDuxbury, Standish Hill
A photograph of the species Dendroica petechia, not of this specimenDendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1899Arthur C. DykeBridgewater
Bazzania Gray1900Seymour, A.B.White Cedar Swamp, Queen Annes Corner, Hingham.
Cepaea hortensis (O.F.Müller, 1774)1900Clapp, William FDuxbury

All 856 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Bryantville: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Halifax PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hill Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
John Hill IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
T L Edwards PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Winter Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

Storms nearby

3 since 2009

The National Weather Service names Bryantville in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
February 2016Thunderstorm WindBryantville$15,000Trees and wires in Hanson were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindBryantville$1,000A large limb along Route 58 was downed by thunderstorm winds, falling on a car and denting it.
July 2022HailBryantville-In Pembroke, quarter size hail was reported in the Bryantville section of town. Relayed by amateur radio.

Every storm recorded in Plymouth 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
Mayflower Grove0.2 miles37
Golden Ring Camp0.4 miles37
Gurneys Corner0.6 miles37
Breezy Hill0.8 miles37
Camp Kiwanis1.1 miles37
Burrage1.2 miles37
Oldham Village1.7 miles37
Camp Wampatuck1.7 miles37

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 Q122541323The 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 613900. 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.