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

Scotland, 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 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, surveyed 1987

Topographic sheet of Scotland, 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

152 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Scotland between 2003 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. 1 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	61
Debris and open burning	61
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Recreation and ceremony	9
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
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
3 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	EAST BRIDGEWATER
29 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WEST BRIDGEWATER
23 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
20 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	EAST BRIDGEWATER
18 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WEST BRIDGEWATER
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 783 shown

Museums hold 783 specimens collected within 10 miles of Scotland between 1855 and 1975: 393 Plantae, 234 Animalia, 147 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 4 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 783 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 11 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Scotland: 8 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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 Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

Storms nearby

4 since 2020

The National Weather Service names Scotland in 4 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	$5,000	In Bridgewater, a tree was down on a house on Pleasant Street and a large tree was down on Colonial Post Drive.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	$3,000	In Bridgewater, a tree was down on a garage on Norlen Park. A tree and power lines were down on Conant Street.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	$500	In the westernmost part of Bridgewater, a tree was down on Route 24 southbound, near the Raynham town line.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	$200	In Bridgewater, a small tree was down on Vernon St.

Every storm 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 Estates	0.8 miles	33
Bridgewater	2.1 miles	36
Stanley	2.5 miles	37
Camp Titicut	2.7 miles	36
Elm Square	3.2 miles	39
North Middleboro	3.2 miles	36
West Bridgewater	3.2 miles	39
Bennetts Corner	3.2 miles	39

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 613142. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.