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

Wampum Rock, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Wrentham town. It lies in ZIP code area 02093. It stands on Knuckup Hill. The Survey maps it on the Wrentham quadrangle.

Wampum Rock within Norfolk 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 Wampum Rock, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Wampum Rock, 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.

Fires nearby

125 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Wampum Rock between 2015 and 2020, burning about 59 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 ceremony45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Smoking21
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use4

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
25 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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,316 shown

Museums hold 1,316 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wampum Rock between 1843 and 1975: 630 Fungi, 309 Plantae, 258 Animalia, 86 Protozoa, 16 Chromista, 15 Unrecorded, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Herz, A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour 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 Polygala paucifolia, not of this specimenPolygala paucifolia Willd.1843ShoreWoonsocket
A photograph of the species Carex swanii, not of this specimenCarex swanii (Fernald) Mack.1870Joseph BlakeSharon
A photograph of the species Chamaecyparis thyoides, not of this specimenChamaecyparis thyoides (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1870Joseph BlakeSharon
Chantransia hermannii (Roth) Desvaux1870F. W. Dewart
A photograph of the species Trichophorum planifolium, not of this specimenTrichophorum planifolium (Spreng.) Palla1870Joseph BlakeSharon
A photograph of the species Hamamelis virginiana, not of this specimenHamamelis virginiana L.1871T. Morong
A photograph of the species Ranunculus trichophyllus, not of this specimenRanunculus trichophyllus Chaix1871Joseph BlakeSharon
A photograph of the species Gymnocarpium dryopteris, not of this specimenGymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman1874not recorded
A photograph of the species Nitella tenuissima, not of this specimenNitella tenuissima (Desv.) Kütz.1874Piper, S. M.
Thelypteris phegopteris (L.) Sloss.1874not recorded
A photograph of the species Carex vestita, not of this specimenCarex vestita Willd.1875Collector unspecifiedNorfolk.
A photograph of the species Carex echinata, not of this specimenCarex echinata var. echinata1876W. P. Rich

All 1,316 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 24 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Wampum Rock: 15 past producers, 8 producers, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. 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
Sheldonville MineCopper, Silver, GoldPast ProducerVein
Simeone Stone CorporationGranitePast ProducerGranite
Five Star Mineral and Mining CoGoldPast Producer
Sheldonville MineSilver, GoldPast Producer
MassliteClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Plainville Clay PitClayPast Producer
Wrentham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Norfolk 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
Wampum Corner1.0 miles39
Shepardville1.7 miles39
Wrentham1.8 miles39
Wilkins Four Corners2.5 miles39
Plainville2.5 miles39
Sheldonville3.0 miles44
South Foxboro3.2 miles39
West Foxboro4.0 miles39

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 Q122539683The 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 617260. 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.