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

Myricks, Massachusetts

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Berkley town. It lies in ZIP code area 02779. The Survey maps it on the Assonet quadrangle.

Myricks within Bristol County

Then and now

1885 to 1985

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 Myricks, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Myricks, surveyed 1885

Topographic sheets covering this place

34 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

28,738 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 Berkley Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

"Whereas, The southerly part of Taunton and the northerly part of Dighton, on the east side of the Great River, is competently filled with inhabitants, who labor under difficulties by reason of the remoteness from the places of public meetings in the said towns, and have thereupon made application to this court that they may be set off a different and separate parish, and be vested with all the powers and privileges that other towns in this province are vested with.

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

" Sept. 27, 1736. Voted, That the assessors of our town of Berkley forthwith assess or make a tax of three hundred pounds for Mr. Tobey, - two hundred pounds for his settlement, and one hundred pounds for his salary this present year."

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 Berkley Town - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

41 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Myricks between 2015 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
25 September 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
12 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	LAKEVILLE
3 August 2018	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 July 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
15 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	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 1,146 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,146 specimens collected within 10 miles of Myricks between 1850 and 1974: 634 Animalia, 443 Plantae, 58 Fungi, 8 Chromista, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A E Schuyler, A. B. Seymour 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
Ranunculus bulbosus L.	1850	not recorded
Vitis labrusca L.	1850	not 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

All 1,146 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Myricks: 7 past producers, 4 producers, 2 unknowns. 4 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Assonet Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
East Freetown Pit & Assonet Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fillion Bruffee and Boucher Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Freetown Development Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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
Lanzisera Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Bristol County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Myricks in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Myricks	$5,000	Several trees were downed, one of them blocking one lane of traffic on a road and another falling onto a utility pole on Braley Road.
August 2008	Lightning	Myricks	$2,000	Lightning struck a shed, setting a fire.
July 2017	Hail	Myricks	-	At 315 PM EST, dime size hail was reported at Freetown.

Every storm 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
Berkley	3.1 miles	34
Buffington Corner	3.2 miles	34
Assonet	3.2 miles	34
Camp Welch	3.3 miles	34
East Taunton	3.6 miles	33
Assonet Bay Shores	4.1 miles	34
Berkley Bridge	4.2 miles	34
Segreganset	4.6 miles	34

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 Q122595641

The 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 613118. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.