Beechwood, Massachusetts

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.

1885 1984

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 Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1920 USGS Abington quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1974 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:25000
• 1974 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Cohasset quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Provincetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Weymouth quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings

History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Cohasset 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 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.

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:

• Reeds Corner
• Black Rock
• Cohasset
• North Cohasset
• East Weymouth
• Idlewell

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Carex trisperma Dewey	1836	J. W. Robbins
	Salicornia bigelovii Torr.	1840	Welle, J.	Hull
	Salsola kali L.	1840	Welle, J.	Hull
	Cladonia rangiferina (L.) Weber	1844	J. L. Russell	Hingham
	Lopadium disciforme (Flot.) Kullh.	1848	J. L. Russell
	Cladonia gracilis (L.) Willd.	1849	J. L. Russell	Hingham
	Spyridia filamentosa (Wulfen) Harv.	1849	see Collection Note
	Frullania asagrayana Mont.	1850	J. L. Russell
	Hypnum curvifolium Hedw.	1851	W. L. Russell	Hingham
	Lobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm.	1851	J. L. Russell
	Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)	1852	S. Baird	Hingham Massachusetts
	Buellia alboatra (Hoffm.) Th.Fr.	1852	Edward Tuckerman

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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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.

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beechwood in 1 storm report in 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.

Every storm recorded in Norfolk County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.