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

Midland, Massachusetts

44 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bellingham town. It lies in ZIP code area 02019. It stands on Beaver Brook. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle.

Midland 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 Midland, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Midland, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

44 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 Midland between 2015 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. None 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	24
Recreation and ceremony	17
Smoking	11
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
28 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BELLINGHAM
27 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BELLINGHAM
27 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BELLINGHAM
25 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BELLINGHAM
17 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FRANKLIN
16 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FRANKLIN
13 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FRANKLIN
13 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FRANKLIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 313 shown

Museums hold 313 specimens collected within 10 miles of Midland between 1843 and 1973: 117 Animalia, 95 Plantae, 94 Fungi, 6 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Herz, A. B. Seymour, A. P. D. Piguet 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
Polygala paucifolia Willd.	1843	Shore	Woonsocket
Nitella tenuissima (Desv.) Kütz.	1874	Piper, S. M.
Carex vestita Willd.	1875	Collector unspecified	Norfolk.
Loxia curvirostra minor (C.L.Brehm, 1846)	1877	Charles A. Houghton	West Medway
Passerina cyanea (Linnaeus, 1766)	1877	Charles A. Houghton	West Medway
Ensis directus (Conrad, 1844)	1881	Eaton	Massachusetts
Podiceps auritus cornutus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1881	Daniel Duncan	West Medway
Fungi	1882	S. Higginson
Roestelia lacerata Mérat	1883	A. B. Seymour
Stamnaria americana Massee & Morgan	1883	W. G. Farlow
Acorus americanus (Raf.) Raf.	1884	Nathaniel T. Kidder	Charles River, above Medfield
Gymnosporangium clavariiforme (Wulfen) DC.	1885	A. B. Seymour

All 313 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 13 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Midland: 10 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Castellucci and Sons	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Milford Pink Granite Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Candlewood Recreation Area	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Carl A Molinari	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Carl A. Molinari Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Franklin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
High Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Highway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
O A Lafleur	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Richard C Hill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms nearby

3 since 2018

The National Weather Service names Midland in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2020: 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2020	Lightning	Midland	1 hurt	A 23 year old woman was injured by a lightning strike very near her house, while she was turning on a lamp on an enclosed porch on Depot Street in Bellingham. She was treated and released by a local hospital.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Midland	-	At 10:44 AM EST, Monique Drive in Bellingham was reported flooded and impassable.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Midland	-	At 11:35 AM EST, Caroline Drive in Bellingham was reported flooded and impassable.

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
Forest Park	0.3 miles	44
Charles River Grove	0.5 miles	44
Bellingham	0.6 miles	44
Wethersfield	0.8 miles	44
Maple Ridge	1.2 miles	44
Happy Hills	1.6 miles	44
Scott Hill Acres	1.8 miles	44
Valley View	2.0 miles	44

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 611710. 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.