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

Judson, Massachusetts

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Raynham town. It lies in ZIP code area 02767. It stands on Bassett Brook. The Survey maps it on the Taunton quadrangle.

Judson within Bristol County

Then and now

1885 to 1987

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 Judson, surveyed 1987

Topographic sheet of Judson, surveyed 1885

Topographic sheets covering this place

33 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

33,331 words on this township

History of Bristol County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Raynham Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

First Settlers. - Prominent among the early settlers and a leading family in the town were the Leonards. The Washburne familes were also prominent. Israel Washburne, the third of that name, removed to Maine, and had three sons who became members of Congress from three different States. One was Governor of Maine, and one, Elihu P. Washburne, was Secretary of State, etc. Among other prominent families, the following are mentioned : The Kings, the Deans, Shaws, Halls, Gushees, Williamses, Gilmores, Andrews, Hathaways, Whites, Tracys, Knapps, etc. Hon. Josiah Dean was a member of Congress, elected in about 1808. He was a leading man of the town and county.

Passage source: History of Bristol County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1883.

Dr. Fobes, in his " History of Raynham," published in 1793, in referring to this house, says, " In the cellar was deposited, for a considerable time, the head of King Philip ; for it seems that even Philip shared the fate of kings ; he was decollated, and his head carried about, and shown by one Alderman, the Indian who shot him.

Passage source: History of Bristol County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1883.

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 Raynham Town - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

108 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Judson between 2003 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning	46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	39
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	5
Natural	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
6 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
19 September 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MIDDLEBOROUGH
17 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MIDDLEBOROUGH
16 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MIDDLEBOROUGH
14 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MIDDLEBOROUGH
1 September 2018	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 1,827 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,827 specimens collected within 10 miles of Judson between 1855 and 1975: 1,035 Animalia, 605 Plantae, 173 Fungi, 6 Chromista, 5 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A AND P STARRETT, A. A. Eaton 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
Condylura cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)	1855	Preparator(s): Edwin V. Komarek	Middleboro
Microtus pennsylvanicus pennsylvanicus (Ord, 1815)	1855	John W. Jenks	Middleboro
Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque, 1818)	1855	John W. Jenks	Middleboro
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
Baptisia tinctoria (L.) R.Br.	1866	Joseph Blake	Middleboro
Carex bullata Willd.	1866	Rev. J. Blake	Middleborough
Ranunculus aquatilis var. diffusus With.	1866	not recorded
Rhododendron viscosum (L.) Torr.	1866	Joseph Blake	Middleboro
Chelidonium majus L.	1875	not recorded

All 1,827 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Judson: 9 past producers, 4 producers, 2 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Styles and Hart Brick Co	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
The Stiles & Hart Brick Co.	Clay	Producer
Bridgewater Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Fillion Bruffee and Boucher Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
King Trucking Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lakeville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lakeville Sand & Gravel Corp	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lakeville Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Lakeville Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Landfill Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Raynham Center	2.6 miles	33
East Taunton	2.6 miles	33
Tracy Corner	3.0 miles	33
Raynham	4.3 miles	33
Prattville	4.3 miles	33
Taunton	4.7 miles	33
Whittenton	4.8 miles	33
Weir Village	4.9 miles	33

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 617688. 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.