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

Four Corners, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Stoughton town. It lies in ZIP code area 02072. It stands on Steep Hill Brook. The Survey maps it on the Blue Hills quadrangle.

Four Corners within Norfolk 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 Four Corners, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Four Corners, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

42 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

214 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Four Corners between 2015 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 1 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Recreation and ceremony59
Debris and open burning48
Smoking35
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 ControlBROCKTON
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSTOUGHTON
6 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSHARON
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSHARON
26 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSHARON
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSTOUGHTON
24 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 Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 6,072 shown

Museums hold 6,072 specimens collected within 10 miles of Four Corners between 1832 and 1975: 2,734 Plantae, 1,657 Animalia, 1,509 Fungi, 132 Protozoa, 22 Chromista, 13 Unrecorded, 5 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), ?, A W Cheever 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
Specimen of Lysimachia × producta (A.Gray) FernaldLysimachia × producta (A.Gray) Fernald1900A. P. Chute
A photograph of the species Cornus sericea, not of this specimenCornus sericea subsp. sericea1832Nathaniel T. KidderMilton, Brook Road
A photograph of the species Galium verum, not of this specimenGalium verum L.1846Kupell
A photograph of the species Carex bullata, not of this specimenCarex bullata Schkuhr1853Collector unknownHoughtons Pond.
A photograph of the species Carex albicans, not of this specimenCarex albicans Willd. ex Spreng.1854W. BoottWest Quincy: Blue Hills Reservation, River Road
A photograph of the species Chamberlainia salebrosa, not of this specimenChamberlainia salebrosa (Hoffm. ex F.Weber & D.Mohr) H.Rob.1857T. P. JamesRandolph
A photograph of the species Carex swanii, not of this specimenCarex swanii (Fernald) Mack.1870Joseph BlakeSharon
A photograph of the species Chamaecyparis thyoides, not of this specimenChamaecyparis thyoides (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1870Joseph BlakeSharon
Chantransia hermannii (Roth) Desvaux1870F. W. Dewart
A photograph of the species Pyrenopsis phylliscina, not of this specimenPyrenopsis phylliscina (Tuck.) Tuck.1870H. WilleyWest Quincy.
A photograph of the species Rhynchospora macrostachya, not of this specimenRhynchospora macrostachya Torr. ex A.Gray1870Booth, W.South Weymouth
A photograph of the species Trichophorum planifolium, not of this specimenTrichophorum planifolium (Spreng.) Palla1870Joseph BlakeSharon

All 6,072 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 15 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Four Corners: 9 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Thorn Mountain ProspectIronOccurrence
Simeone Stone CorpStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stoughton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
A A Will Materials CordSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
A Edward SarniSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Avon Building Supply CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Avon Building Supply Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Boston Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Canton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Canton Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Belchers Corner (historical)0.1 miles42
Stoughton0.7 miles42
West Stoughton0.8 miles42
Springdale1.7 miles41
South Stoughton2.0 miles39
North Stoughton2.2 miles42
Canton2.5 miles41
Stoughton Junction2.6 miles39

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1972671. 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.