East Sudbury Station, Massachusetts
40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sudbury town. It lies in ZIP code area 01776. It stands on Hop Brook. The Survey maps it on the Framingham quadrangle.
Then and now
1886 to 1989The 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 sheets covering this place
40 sheetsMatched 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 Framingham quadrangle1:62500
- 1889 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
- 1943 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Framingham 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
- 1965 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:24000
- 1965 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:25000
- 1977 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:25000
- 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:25000
- 1987 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:25000
- 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
In the 1908 county history
18,007 words on this townshipThe county history of 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Sudbury Town covers the township.
Read the chapter on Sudbury Town - 18,007 words.
Fires nearby
101 since 1995The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of East Sudbury Station between 1995 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 43 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 4 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 3 September 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 3 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 23 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 23 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 22 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 21 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,403 shownMuseums hold 1,403 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Sudbury Station between 1898 and 1975: 978 Animalia, 270 Plantae, 148 Fungi, 4 Chromista, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & M. D. Feigley, A. E. Feldman 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 | 1900 | not recorded | Wayland |
![]() | Actaea pachypoda Elliott | 1898 | Ernest Charles Smith | |
![]() | Antennaria howellii subsp. canadensis (Greene) R.J.Bayer | 1898 | Williams, E.F. | |
![]() | Antennaria parlinii subsp. fallax (Greene) R.J.Bayer & Stebbins | 1898 | not recorded | |
![]() | Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Hook. | 1898 | not recorded | |
![]() | Aquilegia canadensis L. | 1898 | M. I. Gunn | Natick |
![]() | Agaricus brunnescens Peck | 1900 | Morris, G. E. | Waltham |
![]() | 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 |
| Araiospora pulchra Thaxt. | 1900 | Thaxter, Roland | Stony Brook, Mass. [Massachusetts] | |
![]() | Archips cerasivorana (Fitch, 1856) | 1900 | E. J. Smith | Sherborn |
All 1,403 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
8 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of East Sudbury Station: 7 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Peat. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panlini Loam Co | Peat | Past Producer | Peat | |
| Arthur Scofield Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Framington Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| New England Sand & Grv Co. Pit & Pl | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pepperell Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Stonebridge Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Town of Wayland | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Sudbury | 0.6 miles | 40 | |
| Musketamquid Village | 1.7 miles | 43 | |
| Sudbury | 1.8 miles | 43 | |
| Wayland | 2.1 miles | 46 | |
| Saxonville | 2.3 miles | 40 | |
| Pine Rest | 2.7 miles | 43 | |
| Nobscot | 2.8 miles | 40 | |
| Cochituate | 3.4 miles | 46 |
Elsewhere
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.
| Wikidata item Q122564312 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 611634. 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.


















































