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Beechwood, Massachusetts

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Cohasset town. It lies in ZIP code area 02025. It stands on Herring Brook. The Survey maps it on the Cohasset quadrangle.

Beechwood within Norfolk 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 Beechwood, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Beechwood, surveyed 1885

Topographic sheets covering this place

38 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

188 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Beechwood between 2015 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 4 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning113
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSCITUATE
4 September 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHINGHAM
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHINGHAM
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHINGHAM
26 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
26 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSCITUATE
22 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlNORWELL
21 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHANOVER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,820 shown

Museums hold 2,820 specimens collected within 10 miles of Beechwood between 1836 and 1975: 1,758 Plantae, 370 Animalia, 312 Fungi, 309 Chromista, 52 Unrecorded, 13 Protozoa, 6 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), A Loveridge, 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 Carex trisperma, not of this specimenCarex trisperma Dewey1836J. W. Robbins
A photograph of the species Salicornia bigelovii, not of this specimenSalicornia bigelovii Torr.1840Welle, J.Hull
A photograph of the species Salsola kali, not of this specimenSalsola kali L.1840Welle, J.Hull
A photograph of the species Cladonia rangiferina, not of this specimenCladonia rangiferina (L.) Weber1844J. L. RussellHingham
A photograph of the species Lopadium disciforme, not of this specimenLopadium disciforme (Flot.) Kullh.1848J. L. Russell
A photograph of the species Cladonia gracilis, not of this specimenCladonia gracilis (L.) Willd.1849J. L. RussellHingham
A photograph of the species Spyridia filamentosa, not of this specimenSpyridia filamentosa (Wulfen) Harv.1849see Collection Note
A photograph of the species Frullania asagrayana, not of this specimenFrullania asagrayana Mont.1850J. L. Russell
A photograph of the species Hypnum curvifolium, not of this specimenHypnum curvifolium Hedw.1851W. L. RussellHingham
A photograph of the species Lobaria pulmonaria, not of this specimenLobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm.1851J. L. Russell
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1852S. BairdHingham Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Buellia alboatra, not of this specimenBuellia alboatra (Hoffm.) Th.Fr.1852Edward Tuckerman

All 2,820 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Beechwood: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ernest Minelli Inc QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hingham PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Margetts QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms nearby

1 since 2017

The National Weather Service names Beechwood in 1 storm report between 2017 and 2017: 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
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBeechwood$1,000At 515 PM EST, a tree was down and blocking Beechwood Street in Cohasset.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Reeds Corner1.0 miles38
Cohasset2.3 miles38
Black Rock2.4 miles38
North Cohasset3.6 miles39
East Weymouth5.4 miles38
Lincoln Heights5.4 miles38
Lovell Corners5.8 miles38
Weymouth6.5 miles38

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 613789. 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.