Copper Works, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1885 1987

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 Providence quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Norton quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Norton 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 Norton quadrangle1:31680
• 1951 USGS Norton quadrangle1:31680
• 1951 USGS Norton quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Norton quadrangle1:25000
• 1964 USGS Norton quadrangle1:24000
• 1964 USGS Norton quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Norton quadrangle1:25000
• 1979 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:50000
• 1984 USGS Providence quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:25000
• 1987 USGS Taunton 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 44 fires within 5 miles of Copper Works between 2015 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

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:

• Barrowsville
• Meadow Brook
• Centre Mills
• East Norton
• Ginty Corner
• Norton

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Museums hold 1,373 specimens collected within 10 miles of Copper Works between 1855 and 1975: 925 Animalia, 353 Plantae, 88 Fungi, 6 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Eaton, 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
	Apocynum cannabinum L.	1855	F. C. Seymour	Rehoboth
	Astur Lacepède, 1799	1860	C. D. Lincoln	Taunton
	Carex panicea L.	1863	J. H. Dean
	Carex L.	1864	J. H. Dean	Taunton.
	Carex vulpinoidea Michx.	1864	J. H. Dean
	Hypoxis hirsuta (L.) Coville	1874	not recorded
	Chelidonium majus L.	1875	not recorded
	Lygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.	1875	not recorded
	Berberis vulgaris L.	1876	not recorded
	Empidonax minimus (W.M.Baird & S.F.Baird, 1843)	1877	C.P. Snow	Taunton, North
	Chaetura pelagica (Linnaeus, 1758)	1878	C. F. Snow	MASSACHUSETTS: Bristol County; Taunton
	Coccyzus erythropthalmus (A.Wilson, 1811)	1878	not recorded	Taunton

All 1,373 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Copper Works: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 617606. 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.