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Miles Bridge, Massachusetts

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Swansea town. It lies in ZIP code area 02777. It stands on Torrey Creek. The Survey maps it on the East Providence quadrangle.

Miles Bridge within Bristol County

Then and now

1887 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Miles Bridge, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Miles Bridge, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

37 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 1883 county history

42,670 words on this township

The county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Swansea Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Swansea Town - 42,670 words.

Fires nearby

30 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Miles Bridge between 2006 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresRhode Island Division of Forest Environmentnot named
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRhode Island Division of Forest Environmentnot named
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRhode Island Division of Forest Environmentnot named
24 July 2020Arson/incendiarismunder 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 1,376 shown

Museums hold 1,376 specimens collected within 10 miles of Miles Bridge between 1844 and 1975: 656 Plantae, 583 Animalia, 105 Fungi, 28 Chromista, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A E Schuyler, A., A. Green 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 Calla palustris, not of this specimenCalla palustris L.1844Thurber, G.
A photograph of the species Hibiscus moscheutos, not of this specimenHibiscus moscheutos subsp. moscheutos1844not recorded
A photograph of the species Pluchea camphorata, not of this specimenPluchea camphorata (L.) DC.1844not recorded
A photograph of the species Chamaecrista fasciculata, not of this specimenChamaecrista fasciculata (Michx.) Greene1846not recorded
A photograph of the species Apocynum cannabinum, not of this specimenApocynum cannabinum L.1855F. C. SeymourRehoboth
A photograph of the species Solidago latissimifolia, not of this specimenSolidago latissimifolia Mill.1867Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Mercenaria mercenaria, not of this specimenMercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758)1870Lermond, NormanProvidence, Narragansett Bay. In market at Providence.
A photograph of the species Carex austrina, not of this specimenCarex austrina Mack.1871S. T. OlneyFields Point, Providence
A photograph of the species Carex muehlenbergii, not of this specimenCarex muehlenbergii Willd.1871S. T. OlneyFields Point
A photograph of the species Carex muskingumensis, not of this specimenCarex muskingumensis Schwein.1871Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex swanii, not of this specimenCarex swanii (Fernald) Mack.1871Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex tribuloides, not of this specimenCarex tribuloides var. tribuloides1871S. T. Olney

All 1,376 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Miles Bridge: 1 plant, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 2 still produce. 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
County Street Mine and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
General Road Trucking CorpSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Swansea PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

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
Barneyville0.2 miles37
North Swansea1.1 miles37
Monroes1.8 miles37
South Rehoboth2.2 miles37
South Seekonk2.2 miles37
Harris3.3 miles37
Luther Corner3.7 miles36
Seekonk3.8 miles37

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 Q122540927The 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 617170. 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.