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

Eastondale, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Easton town. It lies in ZIP code area 02375. It stands on Queset Brook. The Survey maps it on the Brockton quadrangle.

Eastondale within Bristol County

Then and now

1886 to 1989

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.

Topographic sheet of Eastondale, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Eastondale, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

39 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.

In the county-history sources

43,316 words on this township

Atlas of Bristol County, Massachusetts : from Actual Surveys, published 1871 names this settlement in its chapter on Easton Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Taunton Monumental Works..Burt & King, Practical Seulptors, Designers and Engravers in Monumental Art, Military, Public and Private Funeral Monuments, wrought of Italian marble, red, white and blue granite, and from the celebrated Portland stone, 40 Weir st

Passage source: Atlas of Bristol County, Massachusetts : from Actual Surveys, published 1871.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Easton Town - it names this place 4 more 4 times.

Fires near this place

276 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 276 fires within 5 miles of Eastondale between 2002 and 2020, burning about 123 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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 burning	138
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	88
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Recreation and ceremony	10
Smoking	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	ABINGTON
7 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	STOUGHTON
6 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
6 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,384 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,384 specimens collected within 10 miles of Eastondale between 1860 and 1975: 911 Animalia, 289 Plantae, 180 Fungi, 3 Chromista, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
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
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
Dichelyma capillaceum (Dicks.) Myrin	1878	Piper	East Bridgewater
Dryobates pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766)	1878	C. F. Snow	MASSACHUSETTS: Bristol County; Taunton

All 1,384 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Eastondale: 4 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Easton Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Brockton Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Brockton Sand & Gravel Company Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Easton Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gerald Kelleher Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Bristol 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Easton Green	0.6 miles	39
Gowards Corner	0.8 miles	39
South Easton	1.0 miles	39
Morris Corner	1.2 miles	39
Morse Corner	1.3 miles	39
Easton Station	1.4 miles	39
Easton Center	1.5 miles	39
Algers Corner	1.8 miles	39

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 Q122570254

The 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 613077. 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.