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

Scotland Estates, Massachusetts

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Bridgewater Town City. It lies in ZIP code area 02324. The Survey maps it on the Taunton quadrangle.

Scotland Estates within Plymouth County

Then and now

1885 to 1987

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 Scotland Estates, surveyed 1987

Topographic sheet of Scotland Estates, surveyed 1885

Topographic sheets covering this place

33 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.

Fires nearby

139 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Scotland Estates between 2003 and 2020, burning about 77 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning	58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	51
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Recreation and ceremony	9
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	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
29 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WEST BRIDGEWATER
20 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MIDDLEBOROUGH
8 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MIDDLEBOROUGH
4 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
28 August 2017	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 775 shown

Museums hold 775 specimens collected within 10 miles of Scotland Estates between 1855 and 1975: 392 Plantae, 234 Animalia, 141 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour, A. K. Harrison 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
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
Arethusa bulbosa L.	1899	J. Murdoch, Jr.	Middleborough
Carex comosa Boott	1899	J. Murdoch, Jr.	Middleborough
Carex crinita Lam.	1899	J. Murdoch, Jr.	Middleborough
Carex folliculata L.	1899	J. Murdoch, Jr.	Middleborough
Carex merritt-fernaldii Mack.	1899	J. Murdoch, Jr.	Middleborough
Carex virescens Muhl. ex Willd.	1899	J. Murdoch, Jr.	Middleborough
Dendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1899	Arthur C. Dyke	Bridgewater
Epilobium latifolium L.	1899	J. Murdoch, Jr.	Middleborough
Juncus effusus L.	1899	J. Murdoch, Jr.	Middleborough

All 775 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Scotland Estates: 8 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Styles and Hart Brick Co	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
The Stiles & Hart Brick Co.	Clay	Producer
Bridgewater Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bridgewater Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Bridgewater Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gourdin Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Landfill Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Raynham Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Raynham Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Plymouth 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
Scotland	0.8 miles	33
Camp Titicut	1.9 miles	36
North Middleboro	2.5 miles	36
Bridgewater	2.7 miles	36
Stanley	3.3 miles	37
South Bridgewater	3.3 miles	36
Elm Square	4.0 miles	39
Paper Mill Village	4.0 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.

Wikidata item Q122546665

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 1977060. 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.