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East Sharon, Massachusetts

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sharon town. It lies in ZIP code area 02067. It stands on Beaver Brook. The Survey maps it on the Norwood quadrangle.

East Sharon within Norfolk County

Then and now

1886 to 1989

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.

Topographic sheet of East Sharon, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of East Sharon, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

41 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

172 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of East Sharon between 2015 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 1 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 ceremony74
Smoking45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Debris and open burning9
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1

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 ControlSTOUGHTON
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSHARON
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSHARON
26 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSHARON
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSTOUGHTON
23 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSHARON
20 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSHARON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 6,355 shown

Museums hold 6,355 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Sharon between 1832 and 1975: 2,673 Plantae, 1,869 Animalia, 1,635 Fungi, 132 Protozoa, 22 Chromista, 19 Unrecorded, 5 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A W Cheever, A. A. Eaton 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 Clethra alnifolia L.Clethra alnifolia L.1900J. G. Hall
Specimen of Lysimachia × producta (A.Gray) FernaldLysimachia × producta (A.Gray) Fernald1900A. P. Chute
A photograph of the species Cornus sericea, not of this specimenCornus sericea subsp. sericea1832Nathaniel T. KidderMilton, Brook Road
A photograph of the species Galium verum, not of this specimenGalium verum L.1846Kupell
A photograph of the species Carex bullata, not of this specimenCarex bullata Schkuhr1853Collector unknownHoughtons Pond.
A photograph of the species Carex albicans, not of this specimenCarex albicans Willd. ex Spreng.1854W. BoottWest Quincy: Blue Hills Reservation, River Road
A photograph of the species Chamberlainia salebrosa, not of this specimenChamberlainia salebrosa (Hoffm. ex F.Weber & D.Mohr) H.Rob.1857T. P. JamesRandolph
A photograph of the species Carex swanii, not of this specimenCarex swanii (Fernald) Mack.1870Joseph BlakeSharon
A photograph of the species Chamaecyparis thyoides, not of this specimenChamaecyparis thyoides (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1870Joseph BlakeSharon
Chantransia hermannii (Roth) Desvaux1870F. W. Dewart
A photograph of the species Pyrenopsis phylliscina, not of this specimenPyrenopsis phylliscina (Tuck.) Tuck.1870H. WilleyWest Quincy.
A photograph of the species Trichophorum planifolium, not of this specimenTrichophorum planifolium (Spreng.) Palla1870Joseph BlakeSharon

All 6,355 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 13 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of East Sharon: 8 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, 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
Hopkinton QuarryGraniteProducer
Iron Mountain MineIronPast Producer
Simeone Stone CorpStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stoughton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Thorn Mountain ProspectIronOccurrence
A A Will Materials CordSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Boston Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Canton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Canton Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Farnham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Sharon1.2 miles40
Canton1.8 miles41
Canton Junction1.9 miles41
West Stoughton2.0 miles42
Springdale2.1 miles41
Sharon Heights2.6 miles40
Four Corners2.7 miles42
Belchers Corner (historical)2.8 miles42

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 617620. 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.