Manson Corner, Massachusetts

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.

1885 1984

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.

• 1885 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1920 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1974 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:25000
• 1974 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings

New Topographical Atlas of Surveys : Plymouth County, Together with Town of Cohasset, Norfolk County, Massachusetts . . ., published 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Manson Corner between 2015 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Mungo Corner
• Scituate Center
• Egypt
• Greenbush
• Kings Landing
• Old Oaken Bucket Homestead

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,638 specimens collected within 10 miles of Manson Corner between 1836 and 1975: 846 Plantae, 312 Animalia, 256 Fungi, 129 Unrecorded, 76 Chromista, 13 Protozoa, 6 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Loveridge, A. B. Seymour, A. C. Mathieson 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Carex trisperma Dewey	1836	J. W. Robbins
	Salicornia bigelovii Torr.	1840	Welle, J.	Hull
	Salsola kali L.	1840	Welle, J.	Hull
	Cladonia rangiferina (L.) Weber	1844	J. L. Russell	Hingham
	Lopadium disciforme (Flot.) Kullh.	1848	J. L. Russell
	Cladonia gracilis (L.) Willd.	1849	J. L. Russell	Hingham
	Spyridia filamentosa (Wulfen) Harv.	1849	see Collection Note
	Frullania asagrayana Mont.	1850	J. L. Russell
	Hypnum curvifolium Hedw.	1851	W. L. Russell	Hingham
	Cyperus lupulinus subsp. macilentus (Fernald) Marcks	1899	E. F. Williams
	Lolium multiflorum Lam.	1899	not recorded
	Penthorum sedoides L.	1899	E. F. Williams

All 1,638 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 613837. 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.