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

East Braintree, Massachusetts

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Braintree Town City. It lies in ZIP code area 02184. It stands on Smelt Brook. The Survey maps it on the Weymouth quadrangle.

East Braintree 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 East Braintree, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of East Braintree, 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

374 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 374 fires within 5 miles of East Braintree between 2015 and 2020, burning about 166 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Recreation and ceremony203
Debris and open burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Smoking49
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Fireworks3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWEYMOUTH
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBRAINTREE
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBRAINTREE
5 September 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlQUINCY
5 September 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWEYMOUTH
4 September 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHINGHAM
29 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBRAINTREE
29 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWEYMOUTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 8,375 shown

Museums hold 8,375 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Braintree between 1815 and 1975: 4,508 Plantae, 2,138 Animalia, 1,304 Fungi, 295 Chromista, 75 Protozoa, 42 Unrecorded, 13 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), A C Gibson, A Loveridge 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
Specimen of Lysimachia × producta (A.Gray) FernaldLysimachia × producta (A.Gray) Fernald1900A. P. Chute
A photograph of the species Mollugo verticillata, not of this specimenMollugo verticillata L.1815Boott, F.M.B.Boston.
A photograph of the species Ranunculus L., not of this specimenRanunculus L.1815not recordedThicket at South Boston.
A photograph of the species Fallopia Adans., not of this specimenFallopia Adans.1816Boott, J.W.Andover Turnpike, near Boston. N. America.
A photograph of the species Cistus L., not of this specimenCistus L.1819Boott, J.W.Boston USA.
Solanum bonariense L.1819Boott, J.W.Boston.
A photograph of the species Anemone nemorosa, not of this specimenAnemone nemorosa L.1822Boott, J.W.Boston, U.S.A.
A photograph of the species Asarum L., not of this specimenAsarum L.1822Boott, J.W.Boston, U.S.A.
A photograph of the species Corydalis Vent., not of this specimenCorydalis Vent.1822Boott, J.W.Boston, U.S.A.
A photograph of the species Hepatica Mill., not of this specimenHepatica Mill.1822Boott, J.W.Boston.
Haloragaceae1824Boott, J.W.Near Boston.
Nymphaea odorata Sol. ex Aiton1824Boott, F.M.B.Boston, U.S.A.

All 8,375 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 19 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of East Braintree: 10 producers, 9 past producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. 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
Bates Brothers Seam Face Granite CoGranitePast ProducerGranite
Marshfield Sand and GravelGranitePast ProducerGranite
Old Colony Crushed StoneGranitePast ProducerGranite
Plymouth QuarriesGranitePast ProducerGranite
Weymouth QuarryGraniteProducer
Bates Brothers Realty Trust QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bristol Pit & Plant LorussoStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
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 2020

The National Weather Service names East Braintree in 1 storm report between 2020 and 2020: 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 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Braintree$500In Quincy, a tree was down at Perley Place.

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
Weymouth Landing0.7 miles38
Old Boat Point0.9 miles38
South Commons1.1 miles38
Idlewell1.1 miles38
Quincy Neck1.1 miles38
Braintree1.3 miles38
Quincy Point1.5 miles38
Weymouth Heights1.6 miles38

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 613326. 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.