Brockton, Massachusetts

Brockton grew from 1,953 to 105,643 between 1830 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.

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.

1886 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.

• 1886 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1919 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:25000
• 1975 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:25000
• 1987 USGS Brockton quadrangle1:25000
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 434 fires within 5 miles of Brockton between 2005 and 2020, burning about 183 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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:

• Abington
• Auburnville
• Beaver
• Campello
• Montello
• West Abington

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Museums hold 784 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brockton between 1857 and 1975: 433 Plantae, 216 Fungi, 132 Animalia, 1 Chromista, 1 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour, A. Clark 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
	Chamberlainia salebrosa (Hoffm. ex F.Weber & D.Mohr) H.Rob.	1857	T. P. James	Randolph
	Rhynchospora macrostachya Torr. ex A.Gray	1870	Booth, W.	South Weymouth
	Myosotis laxa Lehm.	1874	H. G. Jesup	South Weymouth
	Spergularia salina J.Presl & C.Presl	1874	C. W. Healning
	Dichelyma capillaceum (Dicks.) Myrin	1878	Piper	East Bridgewater
	Sabatia kennedyana Fernald	1878	not recorded
	Cornus rugosa Lam.	1899	Nathaniel T. Kidder	Blue Hills Reservation, Slide Notch
	Dendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1899	Arthur C. Dyke	Bridgewater
	Glyceria fluitans (L.) R.Br.	1899	E. F. Williams
	Juglans cinerea L.	1899	Nathaniel T. Kidder	Blue Hills Reservation, Bouncing Brook Path
	Lysimachia quadrifolia L.	1899	E. F. Williams
	Resupinatus applicatus (Batsch) Gray	1899	M. V. Thayer	Holbrook.

All 784 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Brockton: 9 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 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.

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

The National Weather Service names Brockton in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 heavy rain, 3 lightning. The reports record 60 injuries. 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 Plymouth County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 617571. 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.