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

Foxboro, Massachusetts

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Foxborough town. It lies in ZIP code area 02035. It stands on Foolish Hill. The Survey maps it on the Wrentham quadrangle.

Foxboro 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 Foxboro, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Foxboro, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

40 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

111 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Foxboro between 2015 and 2020, burning about 55 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 ceremony	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	39
Smoking	16
Debris and open burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
3 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FOXBORO
26 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	SHARON
23 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE
23 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	SHARON
22 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
20 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	SHARON
15 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
15 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FOXBORO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,975 shown

Museums hold 1,975 specimens collected within 10 miles of Foxboro between 1870 and 1975: 883 Fungi, 638 Plantae, 318 Animalia, 102 Protozoa, 16 Chromista, 13 Unrecorded, 5 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Clethra alnifolia L.	1900	J. G. Hall
Pyrola elliptica Nutt.	1900	Leavitt,S.D. s.n. [1900-06]	[label: O. Leonhardt, Nossen i. S. Germania. Berliner Botanischer Tauschverein] Flora Am. bor.: North Easton (Mass.)
Carex swanii (Fernald) Mack.	1870	Joseph Blake	Sharon
Chamaecyparis thyoides (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.	1870	Joseph Blake	Sharon
Chantransia hermannii (Roth) Desvaux	1870	F. W. Dewart
Trichophorum planifolium (Spreng.) Palla	1870	Joseph Blake	Sharon
Hamamelis virginiana L.	1871	T. Morong
Ranunculus trichophyllus Chaix	1871	Joseph Blake	Sharon
Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman	1874	not recorded
Nitella tenuissima (Desv.) Kütz.	1874	Piper, S. M.
Thelypteris phegopteris (L.) Sloss.	1874	not recorded
Carex vestita Willd.	1875	Collector unspecified	Norfolk.

All 1,975 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Foxboro: 7 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Boro Sand and Stone Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Boro Sand and Stone, Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Chestnut Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dorrance Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Farnham Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
J Colella and Son Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Plain Street Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wrentham Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wrentham Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms nearby

4 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Foxboro in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2023	Tornado (EF0)	East Foxboro	$5,000	Tornado confirmed to have touched down in a small neighborhood in\|Foxboro near the Mansfield town line very close to the town of Easton. \|Several locations on a west to east path in the neighborhood had several\|large trees up to 2 feet in diameter snapped at the trunk.\|Observed tree damage had a convergent pattern consistent with\|violently rotating winds. No major damage to homes was observed,\|but one chimney appeared to have been knocked over by a fallen\|tree. Path width was estimated to be around 25 yards. Path length\|of the surveyed damage points was just shy of 300 yards. Per\|radar data, a velocity couplet was over the surveyed neighborhood\|for only a minute or two before continuing east over conservation\|land. It is possible that the tornado was on the ground for\|longer, but surveyors were unable to access conservation land\|east of the last surveyed damage point. Additional significant \|tree damage was found east of aforementioned conservation land in Easton, \|but patterns were more consistent with west to east straight line winds. \|This is also consistent with archived KBOX radar which displayed strong\|outbound (west to east) velocities over this area.
August 2023	Flash Flood	South Foxboro	-	In Foxborough, there was 1 foot of street flooding in the right lane of 495 south.
June 1996	Hail	Foxboro	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Foxboro	-	no account filed

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Foxborough	0.5 miles	40
North Foxboro	1.3 miles	39
Foxvale	1.4 miles	40
West Foxboro	1.6 miles	39
South Foxboro	1.9 miles	39
Camp Lincoln Hill	2.0 miles	40
East Foxboro	2.6 miles	40
Pondville	3.1 miles	39

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612069. 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.