North Stoughton, Massachusetts

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.

1886 1989

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.

• 1886 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1919 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:31680, 4 printings
• 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
• 1946 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:25000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1971 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:25000
• 1971 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Stoughton 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 257 fires within 5 miles of North Stoughton between 2015 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

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:

• Randolph
• South Stoughton
• Braintree
• Holbrook
• North Randolph
• Stoughton

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 6,455 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Stoughton between 1832 and 1975: 2,842 Plantae, 1,738 Fungi, 1,680 Animalia, 145 Protozoa, 28 Chromista, 18 Unrecorded, 4 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), ?, A W Cheever 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
	Lysimachia × producta (A.Gray) Fernald	1900	A. P. Chute
	Cornus sericea subsp. sericea	1832	Nathaniel T. Kidder	Milton, Brook Road
	Galium verum L.	1846	Kupell
	Buellia alboatra (Hoffm.) Th.Fr.	1852	Edward Tuckerman
	Carex bullata Schkuhr	1853	Collector unknown	Houghtons Pond.
	Carex albicans Willd. ex Spreng.	1854	W. Boott	West Quincy: Blue Hills Reservation, River Road
	Chamberlainia salebrosa (Hoffm. ex F.Weber & D.Mohr) H.Rob.	1857	T. P. James	Randolph
	Numenius borealis (J.R.Forster, 1772)	1866	not recorded	Dorchester
	Carex swanii (Fernald) Mack.	1870	Joseph Blake	Sharon
	Chamaecyparis thyoides (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.	1870	Joseph Blake	Sharon
	Chantransia hermannii (Roth) Desvaux	1870	F. W. Dewart
	Pyrenopsis phylliscina (Tuck.) Tuck.	1870	H. Willey	West Quincy.

All 6,455 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of North Stoughton: 8 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 4 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.

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 612974. 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.