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

North Seekonk, Massachusetts

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Seekonk town. It lies in ZIP code area 02771. It stands on Sevenmile River. The Survey maps it on the Attleboro quadrangle. 2,726 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 85 feet above sea level.

North Seekonk within Bristol County

Population over time

2 figures

North Seekonk grew from 2,643 to 2,726 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	2,643
2020	2,726	+83 (+3%)

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 North Seekonk, surveyed 1987

Topographic sheet of North Seekonk, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

36 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

16,959 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 Seekonk Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Seekonk Town - 16,959 words.

Fires nearby

26 since 2008

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of North Seekonk between 2008 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. None 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
21 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 August 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
11 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
15 June 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rhode Island Division of Forest Environment	not named
23 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 May 2020	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 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 nearby

12 of 669 shown

Museums hold 669 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Seekonk between 1844 and 1975: 447 Plantae, 149 Animalia, 72 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A., A. A. Eaton, A. E. Sears 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
Calla palustris L.	1844	Thurber, G.
Chamaecrista fasciculata (Michx.) Greene	1846	not recorded
Apocynum cannabinum L.	1855	F. C. Seymour	Rehoboth
Solidago latissimifolia Mill.	1867	Collector unknown
Carex austrina Mack.	1871	S. T. Olney	Fields Point, Providence
Carex muehlenbergii Willd.	1871	S. T. Olney	Fields Point
Carex muskingumensis Schwein.	1871	Collector unknown
Carex swanii (Fernald) Mack.	1871	Collector unknown
Carex tribuloides var. tribuloides	1871	S. T. Olney
Carex virescens Muhl. ex Willd.	1871	S. T. Olney	East Providence
Coreopsis rosea Nutt.	1871	T. C. Porter
Solidago elliottii Torr. & A.Gray	1871	Congdon, J.W.	East Providence

All 669 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of North Seekonk: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Adamsdale Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bishops Bend Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Courtois Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Del Soullier Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Del Soullier and Sons	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Morse Co Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Morse Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
River Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Sand and Gravel 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
Perrins Crossing	0.5 miles	36
Hebronville	1.1 miles	36
East Junction	1.8 miles	36
Camp Herbron	2.1 miles	36
South Attleboro	2.1 miles	36
Attleborough City	2.7 miles	36
Dodgeville	2.8 miles	36
Adamsdale	3.4 miles	36

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.

Wikipedia article on North Seekonk	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7056624	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 1867309. 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.