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

Montello, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Brockton City. It lies in ZIP code area 02302. It stands on Searles Brook. The Survey maps it on the Brockton quadrangle.

Montello within Plymouth 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 Montello, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Montello, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

39 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

437 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 437 fires within 5 miles of Montello between 2005 and 2020, burning about 196 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning	200
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	127
Recreation and ceremony	35
Misuse of fire by a minor	32
Smoking	30
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	5
Fireworks	2

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	BROCKTON
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	ABINGTON
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	BROCKTON
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,107 shown

Museums hold 1,107 specimens collected within 10 miles of Montello between 1851 and 1975: 573 Plantae, 285 Fungi, 228 Animalia, 12 Protozoa, 7 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), A. A. Eaton, A. B. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Hypnum curvifolium Hedw.	1851	W. L. Russell	Hingham
Lobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm.	1851	J. L. Russell
Buellia alboatra (Hoffm.) Th.Fr.	1852	Edward Tuckerman
Biatora ochrophaea Tuck.	1853	Russell	Hingham
Lecidea chloropolia Fr.	1853	J. L. Russell	Hingham
Opegrapha stictica (Durieu & Mont.) Nyl.	1853	J. L. Russell	Hingham
Parmelia elegans (Link) Ach.	1856	not recorded	Hingham
Chamberlainia salebrosa (Hoffm. ex F.Weber & D.Mohr) H.Rob.	1857	T. P. James	Randolph
Pyrenopsis phylliscina (Tuck.) Tuck.	1870	H. Willey	West Quincy.
Acer nigrum F.Michx.	1899	Nathaniel T. Kidder	Milton, off Randolph Avenue
Cornus rugosa Lam.	1899	Nathaniel T. Kidder	Blue Hills Reservation, Slide Notch
Dendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1899	Arthur C. Dyke	Bridgewater

All 1,107 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 Montello: 11 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Simeone Stone Corp	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Stoughton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
A Edward Sarni	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Avon Building Supply Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Avon Building Supply Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Boston Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Brockton Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Brockton Sand & Gravel Company Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
F T Read and Sons	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gerald Kelleher Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

Storms nearby

8 since 2012

The National Weather Service names Montello in 8 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2012	Flood	Montello	$30,000	Several streets were flooded and impassable including North Main Street near Lansdown Street and Warren Avenue. Tremont Street was flooded with more than a foot of water. A car drove into two feet of water on Ettrick Street and became stuck. Two people had to be rescued from the car. Westgate Drive was flooded with three feet of water, with several cars stuck in the flood waters.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Montello	$10,000	At 5:10 PM EST, a thunderstorm near Brockton brought several trees and wires down on Winter Street.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Montello	$2,400	In Brockton, a tree and wires were down on Ridge Street, on Spark Street, and on Circle Street.
September 2021	Flood	Montello	$2,000	In Brockton, a car was stuck in flood waters on North Main Street between Battles Street and East Main Street. Report relayed by amateur radio operators.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Montello	$1,000	In Brockton, a tree was down on the Rt 24 northbound exit 33 onramp. Wires were down on West Chestnut St.
September 2019	Flood	Montello	$1,000	In Brockton, cars were stuck in flooding on Ames Street.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Montello	$500	In Brockton, a tree was down on Lisa Drive.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Montello	$300	In Brockton, tree branches and wires were downed by wind near Montello St.

Every storm recorded in Plymouth 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
Brockton	1.7 miles	39
West Abington	2.9 miles	37
Brockton Heights	2.9 miles	39
Clifton Heights	3.6 miles	39
Winters Corner	3.7 miles	39
Campello	3.7 miles	39
Abington	3.8 miles	37
North Abington	3.8 miles	38

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 613112. 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.