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Pratts Corner, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Easton town. It lies in ZIP code area 02375. It stands on South Island. The Survey maps it on the Brockton quadrangle.

Pratts Corner within Bristol County

Then and now

1886 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pratts Corner, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Pratts Corner, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

39 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

43,316 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 Easton Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Easton Town - 43,316 words.

Fires nearby

137 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Pratts Corner between 2002 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWEST BRIDGEWATER
23 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWEST BRIDGEWATER
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBROCKTON
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBROCKTON
18 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWEST BRIDGEWATER
17 September 2018Debris and open burningunder 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 1,427 shown

Museums hold 1,427 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pratts Corner between 1860 and 1975: 953 Animalia, 289 Plantae, 181 Fungi, 3 Chromista, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Eaton, 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Astur Lacepède, not of this specimenAstur Lacepède, 17991860C. D. LincolnTaunton
A photograph of the species Carex panicea, not of this specimenCarex panicea L.1863J. H. Dean
A photograph of the species Carex L., not of this specimenCarex L.1864J. H. DeanTaunton.
A photograph of the species Carex vulpinoidea, not of this specimenCarex vulpinoidea Michx.1864J. H. Dean
A photograph of the species Chelidonium majus, not of this specimenChelidonium majus L.1875not recorded
A photograph of the species Lygodium palmatum, not of this specimenLygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.1875not recorded
A photograph of the species Berberis vulgaris, not of this specimenBerberis vulgaris L.1876not recorded
A photograph of the species Empidonax minimus, not of this specimenEmpidonax minimus (W.M.Baird & S.F.Baird, 1843)1877C.P. SnowTaunton, North
A photograph of the species Chaetura pelagica, not of this specimenChaetura pelagica (Linnaeus, 1758)1878C. F. SnowMASSACHUSETTS: Bristol County; Taunton
A photograph of the species Coccyzus erythropthalmus, not of this specimenCoccyzus erythropthalmus (A.Wilson, 1811)1878not recordedTaunton
A photograph of the species Dichelyma capillaceum, not of this specimenDichelyma capillaceum (Dicks.) Myrin1878PiperEast Bridgewater
A photograph of the species Dryobates pubescens, not of this specimenDryobates pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766)1878C. F. SnowMASSACHUSETTS: Bristol County; Taunton

All 1,427 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Pratts Corner: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Easton PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brockton Sand & Gravel Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Easton Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Raynham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Easton Center1.3 miles39
Five Corners1.4 miles39
Easton Station1.5 miles39
Gowards Corner1.6 miles39
Algers Corner1.6 miles39
Morris Corner1.6 miles39
Easton1.9 miles40
Eastondale1.9 miles39

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 613128. 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.