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

Avon, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Avon town. It lies in ZIP code area 02322. It stands on Beaver Brook. The Survey maps it on the Blue Hills quadrangle. 4,777 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 220 feet above sea level.

Avon within Norfolk County

Population over time

2 figures

Avon grew from 4,356 to 4,777 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	4,356
2020	4,777	+421 (+10%)

Then and now

1886 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Avon, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Avon, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

42 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

410 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 410 fires within 5 miles of Avon between 2005 and 2020, burning about 188 acres in total. 5 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	144
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	113
Recreation and ceremony	76
Smoking	37
Misuse of fire by a minor	27
Natural	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Other causes	1
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	ABINGTON
7 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	STOUGHTON
7 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
6 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 5,944 shown

Museums hold 5,944 specimens collected within 10 miles of Avon between 1832 and 1975: 2,348 Plantae, 1,814 Animalia, 1,595 Fungi, 141 Protozoa, 27 Chromista, 15 Unrecorded, 4 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), ?, A W Cheever 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
Lysimachia × producta (A.Gray) Fernald	1900	A. P. Chute
Cornus sericea subsp. sericea	1832	Nathaniel T. Kidder	Milton, Brook Road
Hypnum curvifolium Hedw.	1851	W. L. Russell	Hingham
Lobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm.	1851	J. L. Russell
Buellia alboatra (Hoffm.) Th.Fr.	1852	Edward Tuckerman
Biatora ochrophaea Tuck.	1853	Russell	Hingham
Carex bullata Schkuhr	1853	Collector unknown	Houghtons Pond.
Lecidea chloropolia Fr.	1853	J. L. Russell	Hingham
Opegrapha stictica (Durieu & Mont.) Nyl.	1853	J. L. Russell	Hingham
Carex albicans Willd. ex Spreng.	1854	W. Boott	West Quincy: Blue Hills Reservation, River Road
Parmelia elegans (Link) Ach.	1856	not recorded	Hingham
Chamberlainia salebrosa (Hoffm. ex F.Weber & D.Mohr) H.Rob.	1857	T. P. James	Randolph

All 5,944 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 12 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Avon: 9 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Simeone Stone Corp	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Stoughton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
A A Will Materials Cord	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
A Edward Sarni	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Avon Building Supply Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Avon Building Supply Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Boston Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Brockton Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Klondyke Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sharon Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms nearby

5 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Avon in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$20,000	Trees, wires, and a utility pole were downed on Main Street and Page Street.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$500	In Avon, a tree was down on North Main Street.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$300	In Avon, the top of a tree was downed on Pinewood Road.
May 2009	Hail	Avon	-	Penny sized hail mixed with smaller hail, falling for seven minutes.
July 1999	Hail	Avon	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Brookville	1.7 miles	42
Randolph	2.2 miles	42
North Stoughton	2.3 miles	42
South Stoughton	2.3 miles	39
Holbrook	2.4 miles	42
Stoughton	3.3 miles	42
Belchers Corner (historical)	3.6 miles	42
Four Corners	3.7 miles	42

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.

Wikipedia article on Avon	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2429639	The 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 612863. 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.