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Medfield Junction, 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 Mill Brook. The Survey maps it on the Medfield quadrangle.

Medfield Junction 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 Medfield Junction, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Medfield Junction, 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

66 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Medfield Junction between 2015 and 2020, burning about 24 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
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlDOVER
26 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMEDFIELD
22 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
12 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWESTWOOD
1 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWESTWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 8,804 shown

Museums hold 8,804 specimens collected within 10 miles of Medfield Junction between 1832 and 1975: 4,472 Animalia, 2,225 Plantae, 1,897 Fungi, 140 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Hypoprepia fucosa Hübner, 1831Hypoprepia fucosa Hübner, 18311900not recordedSherborn
A photograph of the species Bartramia pomiformis, not of this specimenBartramia pomiformis Hedw.1832C. E. Cummings
A photograph of the species Galium verum, not of this specimenGalium verum L.1846Kupell
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium acuminatum, not of this specimenDichanthelium acuminatum var. acuminatum1849Ernest Charles SmithFramingham.
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1852S. BairdFramingham, Massachusetts.
A photograph of the species Boleosoma fusiforme, not of this specimenBoleosoma fusiforme Girard, 18541852S. BairdFramingham, Massachusetts.
A photograph of the species Pristiphora Latreille, not of this specimenPristiphora Latreille, 18101856not recorded
A photograph of the species Grammia arge, not of this specimenGrammia arge Drury, 17731867not recordedSherborn
A photograph of the species Polygonum coccineum, not of this specimenPolygonum coccineum Muhl. ex Willd.1869Morong, T.Natick
A photograph of the species Carex swanii, not of this specimenCarex swanii (Fernald) Mack.1870Joseph BlakeSharon
A photograph of the species Chamaecyparis thyoides, not of this specimenChamaecyparis thyoides (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1870Joseph BlakeSharon
Chantransia hermannii (Roth) Desvaux1870F. W. Dewart

All 8,804 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 19 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Medfield Junction: 11 past producers, 6 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Needham PitStonePast Producer
Simeone Stone CorpGranitePast ProducerGranite
Holliston PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Walpole QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Holliston PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Holliston Sand CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Irving Trucking CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lowland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Medway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Millis Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Harding0.5 miles43
Crownridge Estates0.7 miles43
Farm Street Station1.1 miles43
Medfield1.2 miles43
Clicquot2.3 miles43
Millis2.7 miles43
Glenridge3.4 miles43
Dover4.1 miles43

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.

Wikidata item Q122546080The 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 611951. 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.