Braggville Station, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1887 1989

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.

• 1887 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1919 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1921 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1941 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1969 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:24000
• 1969 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1890 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Braggville Station between 2015 and 2020, burning about 212 acres in total. None started naturally. 37 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:

• Braggville
• Metcalf
• Camp Bob White
• Hayden Row
• Hopkinton
• Holliston

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 334 specimens collected within 10 miles of Braggville Station between 1898 and 1975: 249 Animalia, 73 Plantae, 12 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Strong, Altpeter, Arthur French 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
	Actaea pachypoda Elliott	1898	Ernest Charles Smith
	Bromus ciliatus L.	1898	Ernest Charles Smith	Framingham.
	Bromus secalinus L.	1898	Arthur French	Framingham.
	Carex brevior (Dewey) Mack. ex Lunell	1898	Ernest Charles Smith	Framingham.
	Carex laxiflora Lam.	1898	Ernest Charles Smith	Framingham.
	Carex pallescens L.	1898	Ernest Charles Smith	Framingham.
	Carex straminea Willd. ex Schkuhr	1898	Ernest Charles Smith	Framingham.
	Carex vulgaris var. hydrophila Holm	1898	Arthur French	Framingham.
	Dichanthelium sabulorum var. patulum (Scribn. & Merr.) Gould & C.A.Clark	1898	Ernest Charles Smith	Framingham.
	Agonopterix atrodorsella Clemens, 1863	1900	E. J. Smith	Sherborn
	Apantesis Walker, 1855	1900	E. J. Smith	Sherborn
	Apatelodes torrefacta J.E.Smith, 1797	1900	E. J. Smith	Sherborn

All 334 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Braggville Station: 23 past producers, 7 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, 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 Middlesex 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 611658. 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.