Longwood Station, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1989

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 51 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic SiteNational Historic Landmark · listed 1967 · 0.7 miles away
• Longwood Historic Districtlisted 1978 · 0.0 miles away
• Richmond Courtlisted 1985 · 0.3 miles away
• William Murphy Houselisted 1985 · 0.3 miles away
• James H. Standish Houselisted 1985 · 0.3 miles away
• Cottage Farm Historic Districtlisted 1978 · 0.4 miles away
• Dutch House, Thelisted 1986 · 0.4 miles away
• Linden Parklisted 1985 · 0.4 miles away
• Second Unitarian Churchlisted 1985 · 0.4 miles away
• Winand Toussaint Houselisted 1985 · 0.5 miles away
• Saint Paul's Rectorylisted 1985 · 0.5 miles away
• Saint Paul's Church, Chapel, and Parish Houselisted 1985 · 0.5 miles away

Every listing in Norfolk County

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.

• 1893 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500, 13 printings
• 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:24000
• 1946 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1956 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1970 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:24000
• 1970 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

An account from the chapter on Brookline town. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

Norfolk County Manual, and Year Book for 1876, published 1877; History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Longwood Station between 2015 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Coolidge Corner
• Brookline
• Brookline Village
• Beaconsfield
• Reservoir
• New Squantum

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 12,530 specimens collected within 10 miles of Longwood Station between 1810 and 1975: 5,150 Plantae, 3,800 Fungi, 3,112 Animalia, 193 Protozoa, 178 Chromista, 64 Unrecorded, 33 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), ?, ? ex Herb. W.G. Farlow 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
	Araiospora pulchra Thaxt.	1900	R. Thaxter	Stony Brook
	Lysimachia × producta (A.Gray) Fernald	1900	A. P. Chute
	Thalictrum L.	1810	Boott, J.W.	Near Boston.
	Anemone L.	1815	Boott, J.	Andover Turnpike, 7 miles from Boston.
	Corydalis Vent.	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Worcester turnpike, 6 miles from Boston.
	Corylus L.	1815	not recorded	Cambridge Port, 2 miles from Boston.
	Ericaceae	1815	Boott	Boston, U.S.A.
	Hepatica Mill.	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Sweet Auburn.
	Limonium vulgare Mill.	1815	not recorded	On Cragies Road [=near Cragies Bridge], 1 1/2 miles from Boston.
	Mollugo verticillata L.	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Boston.
	Nuphar Sm.	1815	Boott, J.W.	Worcester Turnpike 6 miles from Boston.
	Persicaria (L.) Mill.	1815	Boott, J.W.	Craigie's Road, 2 miles from Boston.

All 12,530 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Longwood Station: 8 plants, 2 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612950. 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.