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

Purdy Corner, Massachusetts

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Mansfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 02048. It stands on Moose Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mansfield quadrangle.

Purdy 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 Purdy Corner, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Purdy Corner, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

40 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Mansfield town, in the words of 1883.

1883, Mansfield Town

Dairy Outlook For 1935

The dairy industry is headed towards a rather favorable year according to the State College economists and they list these factors to back their statement. There has been a 4% reduction in milk cans in 1934 with a further reduction expected in 1935. There are fewer heifers being saved for milk cows and the drought cattle liquidation along with high feed costs have reduced the number of dual purpose cows milked.

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In the 1883 county history

183,038 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 Mansfield Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Mansfield Town - 183,038 words.

Fires nearby

72 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Purdy Corner between 2015 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Recreation and ceremony	25
Smoking	13
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
3 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FOXBORO
27 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE
27 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE
26 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE
23 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE
22 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE
15 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FOXBORO
12 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 608 shown

Museums hold 608 specimens collected within 10 miles of Purdy Corner between 1874 and 1973: 328 Animalia, 210 Plantae, 70 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Eaton, A. Clark 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
Hypoxis hirsuta (L.) Coville	1874	not recorded
Empidonax minimus (W.M.Baird & S.F.Baird, 1843)	1877	C.P. Snow	Taunton, North
Eubotrys racemosa (L.) Nutt.	1878	Mrs. M. L. Owen
Deutzia scabra Thunb.	1880	S. M. Holman, Jr.	Attleboro.
Habenaria lacera (Michx.) R.Br.	1880	S. M. Holman, Jr.	Attleboro.
Lilium superbum L.	1880	S. M. Holman, Jr.	Attleboro.
Setophaga americana (Linnaeus, 1758)	1880	William C. Flint
Setophaga discolor discolor (Vieillot, 1809)	1880	C. T. Snow
Woodsia ilvensis (L.) R.Br.	1880	S. M. Holman, Jr.	Attleboro.
Passerina cyanea (Linnaeus, 1766)	1881	C. F. Snow	MASSACHUSETTS: Bristol County; Norton
Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)	1883	Collector(s): W. H. Lewis	Attleboro
Spinus tristis tristis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1884	Collector(s): W. H. Lewis	Attleboro

All 608 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 12 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Purdy Corner: 10 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, PGE, Silver. 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
Glines & Rhodes Refin.--Plainville	Gold, PGE, Silver	Past Producer
Boro Sand and Stone Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Boro Sand and Stone, Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dorrance Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pacella Brothers, Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pine Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Plain Street Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Plainville Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Plainville Sand and Gravel	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
West Mansfield	0.6 miles	33
Robinsonville	1.0 miles	39
Mansfield	2.4 miles	40
Norton Grove	3.0 miles	33
Whiteville	3.9 miles	40
East Mansfield	4.0 miles	40
Centre Mills	4.0 miles	33
Chartley	4.2 miles	33

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 Q122595234

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 612519. 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.