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Westdale, Massachusetts

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in West Bridgewater town. It lies in ZIP code area 02379. It stands on Meadow Brook. The Survey maps it on the Whitman quadrangle.

Westdale within Plymouth County

Then and now

1885 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Westdale, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Westdale, surveyed 1885

Topographic sheets covering this place

37 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

306 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 306 fires within 5 miles of Westdale between 2004 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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 burning158
Missing data/not specified/undetermined103
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural3

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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBROCKTON
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlABINGTON
5 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBROCKTON
4 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlEAST BRIDGEWATER
29 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWEST BRIDGEWATER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 795 shown

Museums hold 795 specimens collected within 10 miles of Westdale between 1855 and 1975: 414 Plantae, 220 Fungi, 154 Animalia, 5 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour, A. Grimell 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 Condylura cristata, not of this specimenCondylura cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1855Preparator(s): Edwin V. KomarekMiddleboro
A photograph of the species Microtus pennsylvanicus, not of this specimenMicrotus pennsylvanicus pennsylvanicus (Ord, 1815)1855John W. JenksMiddleboro
A photograph of the species Peromyscus leucopus, not of this specimenPeromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque, 1818)1855John W. JenksMiddleboro
A photograph of the species Arethusa bulbosa, not of this specimenArethusa bulbosa L.1899J. Murdoch, Jr.Middleborough
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1899J. Murdoch, Jr.Middleborough
A photograph of the species Carex crinita, not of this specimenCarex crinita Lam.1899J. Murdoch, Jr.Middleborough
A photograph of the species Carex folliculata, not of this specimenCarex folliculata L.1899J. Murdoch, Jr.Middleborough
Carex merritt-fernaldii Mack.1899J. Murdoch, Jr.Middleborough
A photograph of the species Carex virescens, not of this specimenCarex virescens Muhl. ex Willd.1899J. Murdoch, Jr.Middleborough
A photograph of the species Dendroica petechia, not of this specimenDendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1899Arthur C. DykeBridgewater
Epilobium latifolium L.1899J. Murdoch, Jr.Middleborough
Glyceria fluitans (L.) R.Br.1899E. F. Williams

All 795 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Westdale: 5 past producers, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bridgewater Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bridgewater Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Bridgewater Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brockton PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gerald Kelleher Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gourdin PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

Storms nearby

1 since 2010

The National Weather Service names Westdale in 1 storm report between 2010 and 2010: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2010Thunderstorm WindWestdale$25,000Thunderstorm winds brought down wires near the intersection of Park Avenue and Route 106.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Elmwood Station0.7 miles37
Matfield Junction1.1 miles37
Matfield1.2 miles37
Stanley1.2 miles37
Elmwood1.3 miles37
West Bridgewater1.3 miles39
Matfield Corner1.5 miles39
East Bridgewater1.5 miles37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 613613. 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.