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

East Bridgewater, Massachusetts

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in East Bridgewater town. It lies in ZIP code area 02333. It stands on Meadow Brook. The Survey maps it on the Whitman quadrangle.

East Bridgewater within Plymouth County

Then and now

1885 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of East Bridgewater, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of East Bridgewater, surveyed 1885

Topographic sheets covering this place

37 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.

Photographs

8 photographs, 1942

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Freeman, Albert, photographer, 1942. Library of Congress
Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Freeman, Albert, photographer, 1942. Library of Congress
Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Freeman, Albert, photographer, 1942. Library of Congress
Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Freeman, Albert, photographer, 1942. Library of Congress
Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Freeman, Albert, photographer, 1942. Library of Congress
Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Freeman, Albert, photographer, 1942. Library of Congress
Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Freeman, Albert, photographer, 1942. Library of Congress
Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Freeman, Albert, photographer, 1942. Library of Congress

Fires nearby

342 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 342 fires within 5 miles of East Bridgewater between 2004 and 2020, burning about 153 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning167
Missing data/not specified/undetermined114
Misuse of fire by a minor30
Smoking11
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural5
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHANSON
8 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHANSON
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBROCKTON
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlABINGTON
6 September 2017Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBROCKTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 816 shown

Museums hold 816 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Bridgewater between 1855 and 1975: 440 Plantae, 223 Fungi, 146 Animalia, 5 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour, A. Grimell 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 Condylura cristata, not of this specimenCondylura cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1855Preparator(s): Edwin V. KomarekMiddleboro
A photograph of the species Microtus pennsylvanicus, not of this specimenMicrotus pennsylvanicus pennsylvanicus (Ord, 1815)1855John W. JenksMiddleboro
A photograph of the species Peromyscus leucopus, not of this specimenPeromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque, 1818)1855John W. JenksMiddleboro
A photograph of the species Arethusa bulbosa, not of this specimenArethusa bulbosa L.1899J. Murdoch, Jr.Middleborough
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1899J. Murdoch, Jr.Middleborough
A photograph of the species Carex crinita, not of this specimenCarex crinita Lam.1899J. Murdoch, Jr.Middleborough
A photograph of the species Carex folliculata, not of this specimenCarex folliculata L.1899J. Murdoch, Jr.Middleborough
Carex merritt-fernaldii Mack.1899J. Murdoch, Jr.Middleborough
A photograph of the species Carex virescens, not of this specimenCarex virescens Muhl. ex Willd.1899J. Murdoch, Jr.Middleborough
A photograph of the species Dendroica petechia, not of this specimenDendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1899Arthur C. DykeBridgewater
Epilobium latifolium L.1899J. Murdoch, Jr.Middleborough
Glyceria fluitans (L.) R.Br.1899E. F. Williams

All 816 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of East Bridgewater: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bridgewater Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bridgewater Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Bridgewater Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brockton PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gerald Kelleher Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gourdin PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

Storms nearby

3 since 1999

The National Weather Service names East Bridgewater in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008LightningEast Bridgewater$15,000A house on Springhill Avenue was struck by lightning and caught fire.
July 2021HailEast Bridgewater-In East Bridgewater, dime size hail was reported.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindEast Bridgewater-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Plymouth 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
Satucket1.0 miles37
Elmwood Station1.2 miles37
Beaver1.4 miles37
Matfield Junction1.5 miles37
Westdale1.5 miles37
Elmwood1.6 miles37
Matfield2.0 miles37
Eastville2.0 miles37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 613499. 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.