Metcalf, Massachusetts

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.

1887 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 1 record

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

• Hydrant No. 3 Houselisted 2000 · 0.1 miles away

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.

• 1887 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1919 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1921 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1941 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1969 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:24000
• 1969 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1890 names this settlement in its chapter on Holliston Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Metcalf between 2015 and 2020, burning about 218 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 38 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:

• Braggville
• Braggville Station
• Camp Bob White
• Hayden Row
• Hopkinton
• Holliston

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 770 specimens collected within 10 miles of Metcalf between 1898 and 1975: 657 Animalia, 95 Plantae, 18 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Strong, Altpeter, Arthur French 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
	Actaea pachypoda Elliott	1898	Ernest Charles Smith
	Aquilegia canadensis L.	1898	M. I. Gunn	Natick
	Arthonia lecideella Nyl.	1898	Clara E. Cummings
	Bartramia pomiformis var. elongata Turner	1898	C. E. Cummings
	Bromus ciliatus L.	1898	Ernest Charles Smith	Framingham.
	Bromus secalinus L.	1898	Arthur French	Framingham.
	Carex brevior (Dewey) Mack. ex Lunell	1898	Ernest Charles Smith	Framingham.
	Carex laxiflora Lam.	1898	Ernest Charles Smith	Framingham.
	Agonopterix atrodorsella Clemens, 1863	1900	E. J. Smith	Sherborn
	Apantesis Walker, 1855	1900	E. J. Smith	Sherborn
	Apatelodes torrefacta J.E.Smith, 1797	1900	E. J. Smith	Sherborn
	Archips cerasivorana (Fitch, 1856)	1900	E. J. Smith	Sherborn

All 770 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Metcalf: 22 past producers, 5 producers, 1 plant. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Every working recorded in Middlesex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Metcalf in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Middlesex 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 611709. 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.