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

Foxborough, 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 Mansfield quadrangle. 6,227 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 289 feet above sea level.

Foxborough within Norfolk County

Population over time

2 figures

Foxborough grew from 5,625 to 6,227 between 2010 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	5,625
2020	6,227	+602 (+11%)

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 Foxborough, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Foxborough, 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

112 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Foxborough between 2015 and 2020, burning about 54 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	42
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	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
14 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WRENTHAM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,041 shown

Museums hold 2,041 specimens collected within 10 miles of Foxborough between 1870 and 1975: 884 Fungi, 700 Plantae, 321 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
Carex panicea L.	1871	not recorded
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

All 2,041 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 14 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Foxborough: 10 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Iron. 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
Bates Bros Quarry	Granite	Producer
Iron Mountain Mine	Iron	Past Producer
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
Dedham Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
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

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms nearby

15 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Foxborough in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 2012	Lightning	Foxborough	1 hurt	Lightning struck a house at the intersection of Mechanic and Hope Streets. It struck a tree which imploded sending pieces of wood onto the deck. The lightning then traveled through the yard, creating a 25 foot trench leading to a house and destroying the wooden stairs on the deck and blowing gutters off the house. A 74 year old woman who lives in the house was taken to the hospital with chest pains.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Foxborough	$25,000	no account filed
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Foxborough	$15,000	A tree was downed onto a car by thunderstorm winds. Power lines and a telephone pole also were downed.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Foxborough	$10,000	A tree on Morse Street was downed onto power lines by thunderstorm winds. In addition, tree limbs were downed on Swift Street.
February 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Foxborough	$5,000	Wires on Chestnut Street in Foxboro were downed.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Foxborough	$5,000	A tree and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Foxborough	$2,500	In Foxboro, multiple trees were down on South Street between Foxboro High School and the Taylor School.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Foxborough	$2,000	At 4 PM EST, wind brought a tree down on wires on North Street in Foxborough.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Foxborough	$500	An eight inch diameter branch on Elm Street was downed onto a wooden fence by thunderstorm winds.
June 2009	Hail	Foxborough	-	Penny to quarter size hail fell across portions of Foxborough.
June 2009	Hail	Foxborough	-	Penny to nickel size hail fell in Foxborough.
June 2008	Hail	Foxborough	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Foxborough	-	no account filed
September 2002	Heavy Rain	Foxborough	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Foxborough	-	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
Foxboro	0.5 miles	40
North Foxboro	0.9 miles	39
West Foxboro	1.4 miles	39
Foxvale	1.7 miles	40
Camp Lincoln Hill	1.8 miles	40
South Foxboro	2.3 miles	39
East Foxboro	2.5 miles	40
South Walpole	2.8 miles	39

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.

Wikipedia article on Foxborough	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8565240	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 1867307. 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.