Collins Corner, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1888 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.

• 1888 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1919 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Providence quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Fall River East quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Fall River East quadrangle1:31680
• 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 Fall River East quadrangle1:31680
• 1951 USGS Fall River East quadrangle1:24000
• 1951 USGS Fall River East quadrangle1:31680
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Fall River East quadrangle1:24000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1977 USGS Fall River East quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Providence quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Collins Corner between 2001 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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:

• Fighting Rock Corner
• Steep Brook
• Bowenville
• Oak Grove Village
• Beulah Corners
• Fall River

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Museums hold 1,416 specimens collected within 10 miles of Collins Corner between 1848 and 1975: 571 Animalia, 500 Fungi, 331 Plantae, 9 Chromista, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A E Schuyler, A. B. Gridley, A. B. Hervey 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
	Menegazzia terebrata (Hoffm.) A.Massal.	1860	H. Willey	New Bedford
	Scolopax minor J.F.Gmelin, 1789	1860	Alan Poole	Westport
	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.
	Cladonia atlantica A.Evans	1862	H. Willey	New Bedford.
	Cladonia bacillaris (Ach.) Nyl.	1862	H. Willey	New Bedford.
	Cladonia boryi Tuck.	1862	H. Willey	New Bedford.

All 1,416 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Collins Corner: 1 past producer. 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 Bristol County

The National Weather Service names Collins Corner in 1 storm report between 1998 and 1998: 1 flash flood. 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 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 613197. 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.