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

Holbrook, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Holbrook town. It lies in ZIP code area 02343. It stands on Turkey Hill. The Survey maps it on the Blue Hills quadrangle.

Holbrook 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 Holbrook, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Holbrook, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

42 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

416 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 416 fires within 5 miles of Holbrook between 2015 and 2020, burning about 194 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony	142
Debris and open burning	105
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	98
Smoking	40
Misuse of fire by a minor	22
Natural	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Fireworks	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	ABINGTON
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	ABINGTON
7 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
7 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WEYMOUTH
7 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BRAINTREE
7 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BRAINTREE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 5,484 shown

Museums hold 5,484 specimens collected within 10 miles of Holbrook between 1832 and 1975: 2,465 Plantae, 1,486 Animalia, 1,372 Fungi, 114 Protozoa, 28 Chromista, 15 Unrecorded, 4 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Lysimachia × producta (A.Gray) Fernald	1900	A. P. Chute
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.)
Cornus sericea subsp. sericea	1832	Nathaniel T. Kidder	Milton, Brook Road
Carex trisperma Dewey	1836	J. W. Robbins
Cladonia rangiferina (L.) Weber	1844	J. L. Russell	Hingham
Lopadium disciforme (Flot.) Kullh.	1848	J. L. Russell
Cladonia gracilis (L.) Willd.	1849	J. L. Russell	Hingham
Spyridia filamentosa (Wulfen) Harv.	1849	see Collection Note
Frullania asagrayana Mont.	1850	J. L. Russell
Hypnum curvifolium Hedw.	1851	W. L. Russell	Hingham
Lobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm.	1851	J. L. Russell
Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)	1852	S. Baird	Hingham Massachusetts

All 5,484 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 23 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Holbrook: 14 past producers, 8 producers, 1 plant. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bates Brothers Seam Face Granite Co	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Marshfield Sand and Gravel	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Weymouth Quarry	Granite	Producer
Bates Brothers Realty Trust Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Bristol Pit & Plant Lorusso	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Simeone Stone Corp	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Stoughton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
A A Will Materials Cord	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
A Edward Sarni	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Avon Building Supply Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms nearby

6 since 2005

The National Weather Service names Holbrook in 6 storm reports between 2005 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Holbrook	$15,000	no account filed
July 2018	Lightning	Holbrook	$10,000	At 11:35 AM EST, lightning from a thunderstorm over Holbrook started a house fire on East Shore Road.
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Holbrook	$1,000	At 1020 AM EST, an amateur radio operator reported a tree down in Holbrook...on Weston Avenue at the intersection with Union Street.
June 2020	Flood	Holbrook	-	In Holbrook, a nearly stationary thunderstorm along a sea breeze front caused one foot of street flooding at Route 139 and Poole Circle and on South Franklin Street (Route 37) just north of Collins Road.
October 2014	Flood	Holbrook	-	Route 37 was flooded in Holbrook. Route 28 was closed in both directions between Royal Crest Drive and Gordon Street in Randolph due to flooding.
August 2014	Hail	Holbrook	-	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
Braintree Highlands	1.7 miles	42
Randolph	1.8 miles	42
Brookville	2.1 miles	42
Avon	2.4 miles	42
South Braintree	3.1 miles	38
South Weymouth	3.4 miles	38
North Stoughton	3.5 miles	42
West Corners (historical)	3.7 miles	42

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612936. 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.