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

Robinsonville, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 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 Wrentham quadrangle.

Robinsonville within Bristol County

Then and now

1887 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Robinsonville, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Robinsonville, surveyed 1887

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.

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

82 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Robinsonville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 46 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
Recreation and ceremony28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Smoking16
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlFOXBORO
27 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLAINVILLE
27 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLAINVILLE
26 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLAINVILLE
23 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLAINVILLE
22 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPLAINVILLE
15 September 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlFOXBORO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 483 shown

Museums hold 483 specimens collected within 10 miles of Robinsonville between 1874 and 1973: 209 Animalia, 207 Plantae, 67 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Hypoxis hirsuta, not of this specimenHypoxis hirsuta (L.) Coville1874not 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 Eubotrys racemosa, not of this specimenEubotrys racemosa (L.) Nutt.1878Mrs. M. L. Owen
A photograph of the species Deutzia scabra, not of this specimenDeutzia scabra Thunb.1880S. M. Holman, Jr.Attleboro.
A photograph of the species Habenaria lacera, not of this specimenHabenaria lacera (Michx.) R.Br.1880S. M. Holman, Jr.Attleboro.
A photograph of the species Lilium superbum, not of this specimenLilium superbum L.1880S. M. Holman, Jr.Attleboro.
A photograph of the species Setophaga americana, not of this specimenSetophaga americana (Linnaeus, 1758)1880William C. Flint
A photograph of the species Woodsia ilvensis, not of this specimenWoodsia ilvensis (L.) R.Br.1880S. M. Holman, Jr.Attleboro.
A photograph of the species Passerina cyanea, not of this specimenPasserina cyanea (Linnaeus, 1766)1881C. F. SnowMASSACHUSETTS: Bristol County; Norton
A photograph of the species Contopus virens, not of this specimenContopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1883Collector(s): W. H. LewisAttleboro
A photograph of the species Spinus tristis, not of this specimenSpinus tristis tristis (Linnaeus, 1758)1884Collector(s): W. H. LewisAttleboro
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1884not recordedAttleboro

All 483 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 17 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Robinsonville: 12 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Granite, Bloating Material. 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
Glines & Rhodes Refin.--PlainvilleGold, PGE, SilverPast Producer
Masslite PitClay, StoneProducer
PlainvilleBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary
Simeone Stone CorporationGranitePast ProducerGranite
Wrentham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
MassliteClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Plainville Clay PitClayPast Producer
Boro Sand and Stone IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Boro Sand and Stone, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dorrance IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

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
Purdy Corner1.0 miles40
West Mansfield1.5 miles33
Mansfield2.9 miles40
Attleboro Falls3.9 miles36
Norton Grove4.0 miles33
North Attleboro4.1 miles36
Whiteville4.5 miles40
East Mansfield4.8 miles40

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 617789. 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.