Swansea Center, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1888 1985

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.

• 1888 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1919 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Providence quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:31680
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Providence quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Fall River quadrangle1:25000

History of Bristol County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Swansea Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Swansea Center between 2006 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Luther Corner
• Ocean Grove
• Swansea
• Brayton Point
• South Swansea
• Touisset

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,235 specimens collected within 10 miles of Swansea Center between 1844 and 1975: 584 Animalia, 526 Plantae, 91 Fungi, 31 Chromista, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A E Schuyler, A., A. B. Hervey 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Calla palustris L.	1844	Thurber, G.
	Hibiscus moscheutos subsp. moscheutos	1844	not recorded
	Pluchea camphorata (L.) DC.	1844	not recorded
	Chamaecrista fasciculata (Michx.) Greene	1846	not recorded
	Ranunculus bulbosus L.	1850	not recorded
	Vitis labrusca L.	1850	not recorded
	Apocynum cannabinum L.	1855	F. C. Seymour	Rehoboth
	Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758)	1870	Lermond, Norman	Providence, Narragansett Bay. In market at Providence.
	Solidago latissimifolia Mill.	1870	S. T. Olney
	Solidago uliginosa Nutt.	1873	J. W. Congdon
	Chondrus crispus Stackhouse	1874	F. Wolle	Fall River
	Conomitrium julianum (Savi ex DC.) Mont.	1874	unknown	Fall River

All 1,235 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Swansea Center: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Bristol County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 617829. 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.