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

Norwood, Massachusetts

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Norwood town. It lies in ZIP code area 02062. It stands on Plantingfield Brook. The Survey maps it on the Norwood quadrangle.

Norwood within Norfolk 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 Norwood, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Norwood, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

41 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

159 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Norwood between 2015 and 2020, burning about 63 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	53
Recreation and ceremony	48
Smoking	44
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	DOVER
6 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WESTWOOD
3 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	DEDHAM
22 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
2 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	DEDHAM
18 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	DEDHAM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 12,729 shown

Museums hold 12,729 specimens collected within 10 miles of Norwood between 1815 and 1975: 4,720 Animalia, 4,391 Plantae, 3,250 Fungi, 206 Protozoa, 92 Chromista, 46 Unrecorded, 24 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, ? ex Herb. W.G. Farlow, A C Gibson 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
Hieracium venosum L.	1900	E. F. Williams	Blue Hills Reservation
Hypoprepia fucosa Hübner, 1831	1900	not recorded	Sherborn
Lysimachia × producta (A.Gray) Fernald	1900	A. P. Chute
Corylus L.	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Worcester Turnpike, 7 miles from Boston.
Nuphar Sm.	1815	Boott, J.W.	Worcester Turnpike 6 miles from Boston.
Sassafras J.Presl	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Worcester Turnpike, 6 miles from Boston.
Bartramia pomiformis Hedw.	1832	C. E. Cummings
Cornus sericea subsp. sericea	1832	Nathaniel T. Kidder	Milton, Brook Road
Galium verum L.	1846	Kupell
Calycanthus L.	1850	not recorded	Hort. Cantab. [presumably cultivated Hortus Cantabridgiensis, Botanical Garden Harvard University] e Georgia.
Malvastrum A.Gray	1850	not recorded	Hort. Cantab. [=Hortus Cantabridgiensis, Botanical Garden Harvard University].
Assiminea succinea (L.Pfeiffer, 1840)	1852	not recorded	Roxbury, Boston

All 12,729 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Norwood: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Granite, Stone. 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
Hopkinton Quarry	Granite	Producer
Walpole Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Iron Mountain Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Thorn Mountain Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Canton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Canton Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dedham Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Robbins Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sansone Brothers	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
West Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms nearby

7 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Norwood in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 3 flood, 2 lightning, 1 heavy rain, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2020	Flash Flood	Norwood	$30,000,000	A Flash Flood emergency occurred, with considerable damage in the vicinity of Norwood Hospital. Severe flooding, more than 4 feet deep, occurred in the basement of the hospital. The entire pharmacy inventory was destroyed. One hundred patients had to be evacuated. Numerous cars were submerged in the parking lot, which, albeit, is in a 'bowl' not designed with flooding in mind. Damage to the hospital was estimated at $20,000,000. In addition, emergency management officials said that approximately 250 homes suffered flood damage.
February 2008	Flood	Norwood	$10,000	In Norwood, several streets were flooded. West street in Walpole was flooded underneath the railroad bridge. Also, The Bird Park area was flooded. In Weymouth, Old Swamp River was out of its banks. In Quincy, the Wollaston T Station was shut down due to flooding.
June 2001	Lightning	Norwood	$10,000	no account filed
June 2020	Flood	Norwood	$2,000	At 340 PM EST (440 PM EDT) a section of Route 1 was flooded with up to 1 foot of water. At 346 PM EST, Broadway was reported to be flooded and impassable. At 402 PM EST, four feet of water was reported in the basement of Norwood Hospital.
June 2006	Flood	Norwood	-	Neponset River
July 2001	Lightning	Norwood	-	no account filed
January 1999	Heavy Rain	Norwood	-	no account filed

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
Ellis	1.4 miles	41
Winslows	1.7 miles	41
Westwood	1.9 miles	41
Islington	2.1 miles	41
East Walpole	2.3 miles	41
Greenlodge	2.9 miles	41
Canton Junction	3.0 miles	41
Summer Heights	3.0 miles	41

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612500. 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.