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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Crooks Corner, Massachusetts

44 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bellingham town. It lies in ZIP code area 02019. It stands on Arnolds Brook. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle.

Crooks Corner within Norfolk County

Then and now

1887 to 1989

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.

Topographic sheet of Crooks Corner, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Crooks Corner, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

44 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

47 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Crooks Corner between 2006 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism15
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
23 September 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresRhode Island Division of Forest Environmentnot named
3 August 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBELLINGHAM
28 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBELLINGHAM
8 June 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBELLINGHAM
8 June 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBELLINGHAM
30 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRhode Island Division of Forest Environmentnot named
16 June 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRhode Island Division of Forest Environment777 CASS AVE, WOONSOCKET, RI 02895 (CASS PARK)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 157 shown

Museums hold 157 specimens collected within 10 miles of Crooks Corner between 1843 and 1973: 85 Animalia, 60 Plantae, 10 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Herz, A. R. Hodgdon, A. R. Hodgdon 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
A photograph of the species Polygala paucifolia, not of this specimenPolygala paucifolia Willd.1843ShoreWoonsocket
A photograph of the species Nitella tenuissima, not of this specimenNitella tenuissima (Desv.) Kütz.1874Piper, S. M.
A photograph of the species Loxia curvirostra, not of this specimenLoxia curvirostra minor (C.L.Brehm, 1846)1877Charles A. HoughtonWest Medway
A photograph of the species Passerina cyanea, not of this specimenPasserina cyanea (Linnaeus, 1766)1877Charles A. HoughtonWest Medway
A photograph of the species Podiceps auritus, not of this specimenPodiceps auritus cornutus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1881Daniel DuncanWest Medway
A photograph of the species Acorus americanus, not of this specimenAcorus americanus (Raf.) Raf.1884Nathaniel T. KidderCharles River, above Medfield
A photograph of the species Isotria verticillata, not of this specimenIsotria verticillata (Muhl. ex Willd.) Raf.1885PufferBellingham
A photograph of the species Benthamidia florida, not of this specimenBenthamidia florida (L.) Spach1893not recorded
A photograph of the species Diaporthe Nitschke, not of this specimenDiaporthe Nitschke, 18701893E. A. Burt
Pezicula carpinea (Pers.) Tul. ex Fuckel1893B.M. Duggar
Phyllachora ulmi (C.-J.Duval) Fuckel1893B.M. Duggar
Mytilinidion tortile (Schwein.) Sacc.1894R.E. Schuh

All 157 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 12 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Crooks Corner: 8 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Copper, Silver, Gold. 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
Copper HillMolybdenumOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Scheelite
Copper Mine HillTungsten, Copper, Garnet, Molybdenum, IronOccurrenceMagnetite, Scheelite
Five Star Mineral and Mining CoGoldPast Producer
Foster ProspectArsenic, Uranium, Thorium, REEProspect
Iron Mine HillIron, TitaniumProspect
Iron Mine Hill DepositIron, Titanium, Metal, VanadiumPast Producer
Iron Mine Hill DepositIron, CopperPast ProducerMagnetite
Sheldonville MineCopper, Silver, GoldPast ProducerVein
Sheldonville MineSilver, GoldPast Producer
Candlewood Recreation AreaSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Norfolk 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
Rakeville1.4 miles44
South Bellingham1.4 miles44
Scott Hill Acres3.2 miles44
Maple Ridge3.5 miles44
Wadsworth3.6 miles44
West Wrentham4.2 miles44
Bellingham4.3 miles44
Charles River Grove4.7 miles44

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 Q122564853The 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 611676. 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.