West Dighton, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1885 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.

• 1885 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Providence quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Somerset 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
• 1948 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Providence quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:25000
• 1967 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:25000
• 1979 USGS Taunton quadrangle1:50000
• 1984 USGS Providence quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:25000

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Dighton 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 40 fires within 5 miles of West Dighton between 2015 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. None 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.

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:

• Perrys Corner
• North Rehoboth
• Segreganset
• Wades Corner
• Berkley Bridge
• Chestnut Tree Corner

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,399 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Dighton between 1844 and 1975: 676 Animalia, 587 Plantae, 126 Fungi, 7 Chromista, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A E Schuyler, A. 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
	Apocynum cannabinum L.	1855	F. C. Seymour	Rehoboth
	Astur Lacepède, 1799	1860	C. D. Lincoln	Taunton
	Carex panicea L.	1863	J. H. Dean
	Carex L.	1864	J. H. Dean	Taunton.
	Carex vulpinoidea Michx.	1864	J. H. Dean
	Solidago latissimifolia Mill.	1867	Collector unknown
	Carex muskingumensis Schwein.	1871	Collector unknown
	Carex swanii (Fernald) Mack.	1871	Collector unknown

All 1,399 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of West Dighton: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 617849. 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.