Clifton Heights, 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.

1886 1989

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• South Street Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.8 miles away
• Franklin Blocklisted 1989 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1886 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1919 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:25000
• 1975 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts : with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1884 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 411 fires within 5 miles of Clifton Heights between 2004 and 2020, burning about 176 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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:

• Beaver
• Campello
• Matfield
• Matfield Junction
• Auburnville
• Brockton

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 501 specimens collected within 10 miles of Clifton Heights between 1857 and 1975: 199 Fungi, 180 Plantae, 120 Animalia, 1 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour, A. Clark 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
	Chamberlainia salebrosa (Hoffm. ex F.Weber & D.Mohr) H.Rob.	1857	T. P. James	Randolph
	Rhynchospora macrostachya Torr. ex A.Gray	1870	Booth, W.	South Weymouth
	Myosotis laxa Lehm.	1874	H. G. Jesup	South Weymouth
	Dichelyma capillaceum (Dicks.) Myrin	1878	Piper	East Bridgewater
	Setophaga discolor discolor (Vieillot, 1809)	1880	C. T. Snow
	Thelia hirtella (Hedw.) Sull.	1880	Mrs. Piper
	Fontinalis novae-angliae Sull.	1883	C. G. Pringle; Mrs. Piper
	Phyllactinia guttata (Wallr.) Lév.	1883	A. B. Seymour
	Dendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1899	Arthur C. Dyke	Bridgewater
	Glyceria fluitans (L.) R.Br.	1899	E. F. Williams
	Lysimachia quadrifolia L.	1899	E. F. Williams
	Resupinatus applicatus (Batsch) Gray	1899	M. V. Thayer	Holbrook.

All 501 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Clifton Heights: 5 past producers. None of them 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.

Every working 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 613059. 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.