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Fighting Rock Corner, Massachusetts

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fall River City. It lies in ZIP code area 02720. It stands on Queen Gutter Brook. The Survey maps it on the Fall River East quadrangle.

Fighting Rock Corner within Bristol County

Then and now

1888 to 1985

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.

Topographic sheet of Fighting Rock Corner, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Fighting Rock Corner, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

31 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

46 since 2001

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Fighting Rock Corner between 2001 and 2020, burning about 68 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
16 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 August 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
31 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 July 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,289 shown

Museums hold 1,289 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fighting Rock Corner between 1848 and 1975: 546 Animalia, 490 Fungi, 238 Plantae, 9 Chromista, 4 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Trypethelium virens, not of this specimenTrypethelium virens Tuck.1848ex herb. OakesNew Bedford.
A photograph of the species Ranunculus bulbosus, not of this specimenRanunculus bulbosus L.1850not recorded
A photograph of the species Vitis labrusca, not of this specimenVitis labrusca L.1850not recorded
A photograph of the species Menegazzia terebrata, not of this specimenMenegazzia terebrata (Hoffm.) A.Massal.1860H. WilleyNew Bedford
A photograph of the species Scolopax minor, not of this specimenScolopax minor J.F.Gmelin, 17891860Alan PooleWestport
A photograph of the species Anaptychia palmatula, not of this specimenAnaptychia palmatula (Michx.) Vain., 18991862H. WilleyNew Bedford.
A photograph of the species Anisomeridium polypori, not of this specimenAnisomeridium polypori (Ellis & Everh.) M.E.Barr1862H. WilleyNew Bedford
A photograph of the species Anzia colpodes, not of this specimenAnzia colpodes (Ach.) Stizenb.1862H. WilleyNew Bedford.
A photograph of the species Cladonia apodocarpa, not of this specimenCladonia apodocarpa Robb.1862H. WilleyNew Bedford.
A photograph of the species Cladonia atlantica, not of this specimenCladonia atlantica A.Evans1862H. WilleyNew Bedford.
A photograph of the species Cladonia bacillaris, not of this specimenCladonia bacillaris (Ach.) Nyl.1862H. WilleyNew Bedford.
A photograph of the species Cladonia boryi, not of this specimenCladonia boryi Tuck.1862H. WilleyNew Bedford.

All 1,289 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Fighting Rock Corner: 4 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
Assonet Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Dartmouth PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
East Freetown Pit & Assonet PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lanzisera PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Randy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Collins Corner1.9 miles31
Steep Brook2.1 miles36
Pottersville2.9 miles33
Oak Grove Village2.9 miles36
Bowenville3.1 miles36
Somerset3.2 miles33
Mechanicsville3.2 miles36
Fall River Station3.7 miles36

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 Q122598825The 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 613209. 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.