Northborough, 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 1 record

• First Baptist Church of Northboroughlisted 2016

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 Marlboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Marlboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1896 USGS Marlboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Marlboro quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1908 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1943 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Shrewsbury quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Shrewsbury quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Shrewsbury quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1969 USGS Shrewsbury quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1969 USGS Shrewsbury quadrangle1:25000
• 1975 USGS Shrewsbury quadrangle1:25000
• 1983 USGS Marlborough quadrangle1:25000, 3 printings
• 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, published 1889 names this settlement in its chapter on Northborough 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 72 fires within 5 miles of Northborough between 2015 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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:

• Berlin
• Chapinville
• East Berlin
• South Berlin
• Woodside
• Camp Resolute

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,155 specimens collected within 10 miles of Northborough between 1850 and 1975: 513 Animalia, 494 Plantae, 136 Fungi, 5 Chromista, 4 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A E WOODHEAD, A. G. Chandler, A. H. Chivers 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
	Sceptridium dissectum (Spreng.) Lyon	1899	H. H. Scudder
	Geranium maculatum L.	1850	not recorded
	Packera aurea (L.) Á.Löve & D.Löve	1850	not recorded
	Quercus velutina Lam.	1858	E. S. Hoar	Road to Marlboro, Concord.
	Condylura cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)	1859	E S Wheeler	BERLIN
	Dryobates pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)	1861	not recorded	Bolton
	Clemmys insculpta Fitzinger, 1835	1864	Agassiz
	Magnolia × soulangeana Soul.-Bod.	1866	J. Mekenes
	Leathesia marina (Lyngb.) Decne.	1875	Mrs. H. A. C.	Worceseter
	Arphia sulphurea (Fabricius, 1781)	1892	unknown	Wellesley
	Castilleja coccinea (L.) Spreng.	1892	E. C. Smith	Marboro.
	Hepatica americana (DC.) Ker Gawl.	1892	Clarence Kinney

All 1,155 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Northborough: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Worcester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northborough in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 Worcester County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 610881. 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.