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

Harding, Massachusetts

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Medfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 02052. It stands on Castle Hill. The Survey maps it on the Medfield quadrangle.

Harding within Norfolk County

Then and now

1887 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harding, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Harding, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

43 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

63 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Harding between 2015 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Debris and open burning	21
Recreation and ceremony	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	DOVER
26 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
25 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MEDFIELD
22 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
12 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WESTWOOD
1 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WESTWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 8,890 shown

Museums hold 8,890 specimens collected within 10 miles of Harding between 1832 and 1975: 4,451 Animalia, 2,243 Plantae, 1,988 Fungi, 138 Protozoa, 36 Chromista, 30 Unrecorded, 4 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & A. C. 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
Hypoprepia fucosa Hübner, 1831	1900	not recorded	Sherborn
Bartramia pomiformis Hedw.	1832	C. E. Cummings
Galium verum L.	1846	Kupell
Dichanthelium acuminatum var. acuminatum	1849	Ernest Charles Smith	Framingham.
Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)	1852	S. Baird	Framingham, Massachusetts.
Boleosoma fusiforme Girard, 1854	1852	S. Baird	Framingham, Massachusetts.
Pristiphora Latreille, 1810	1856	not recorded
Grammia arge Drury, 1773	1867	not recorded	Sherborn
Polygonum coccineum Muhl. ex Willd.	1869	Morong, T.	Natick
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

All 8,890 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 Harding: 9 past producers, 4 producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Holliston Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Needham Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Simeone Stone Corp	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Holliston Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Holliston Sand Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Lowland Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Medway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Millis Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
New England Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Norfolk Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms nearby

1 since 2020

The National Weather Service names Harding 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Harding	$2,000	In Medfield, trees were down on wires on both Adams Street and North Street.

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
Medfield Junction	0.5 miles	43
Farm Street Station	0.7 miles	43
Crownridge Estates	1.1 miles	43
Medfield	1.4 miles	43
Clicquot	2.7 miles	43
Glenridge	2.9 miles	43
Millis	3.1 miles	43
Dover	3.6 miles	43

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 611929. 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.