Buffington Corner, Massachusetts

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.

1885 1985

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 Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Assonet quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Assonet quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Providence 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
• 1951 USGS Assonet quadrangle1:24000
• 1951 USGS Assonet quadrangle1:31680
• 1951 USGS Assonet quadrangle1:31680
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Assonet quadrangle1:24000
• 1963 USGS Assonet quadrangle1:24000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1977 USGS Assonet quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Assonet quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Assonet quadrangle1:24000
• 1979 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:50000
• 1984 USGS Providence quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:25000

The county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Buffington Corner between 2015 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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:

• Assonet
• Assonet Bay Shores
• Camp Merriwood
• Camp Welch
• Myricks
• Berkley

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Museums hold 1,792 specimens collected within 10 miles of Buffington Corner between 1848 and 1974: 800 Animalia, 517 Fungi, 460 Plantae, 10 Chromista, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A E Schuyler, A. C. Birch 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
	Trypethelium virens Tuck.	1848	ex herb. Oakes	New Bedford.
	Ranunculus bulbosus L.	1850	not recorded
	Vitis labrusca L.	1850	not 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
	Astur Lacepède, 1799	1860	C. D. Lincoln	Taunton
	Menegazzia terebrata (Hoffm.) A.Massal.	1860	H. Willey	New Bedford
	Anaptychia palmatula (Michx.) Vain., 1899	1862	H. Willey	New Bedford.
	Anisomeridium polypori (Ellis & Everh.) M.E.Barr	1862	H. Willey	New Bedford
	Anzia colpodes (Ach.) Stizenb.	1862	H. Willey	New Bedford.
	Cladonia apodocarpa Robb.	1862	H. Willey	New Bedford.

All 1,792 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Buffington Corner: 3 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.

Every working recorded in Bristol County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612579. 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.