Overbrook, 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 Framingham quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Natick quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Natick quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Natick quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Natick quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Natick quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Natick quadrangle1:24000
• 1950 USGS Natick quadrangle1:24000
• 1950 USGS Natick quadrangle1:31680
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Natick quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Natick quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1970 USGS Natick quadrangle1:24000
• 1970 USGS Natick quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Natick quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:25000
• 1987 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:25000
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Overbrook between 1995 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 1 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.

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:

• Wellesley Fells
• Grantville
• Wellesley
• Wellesley Farms
• Wellesley Hills
• Babson Park

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Museums hold 9,714 specimens collected within 10 miles of Overbrook between 1805 and 1975: 4,648 Animalia, 2,621 Plantae, 2,231 Fungi, 85 Protozoa, 83 Chromista, 33 Unrecorded, 13 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, ? ex Herb. W.G. Farlow, 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.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Araiospora pulchra Thaxt.	1900	R. Thaxter	Stony Brook
	Hypoprepia fucosa Hübner, 1831	1900	not recorded	Sherborn
	Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)	1805	Bryant, O.	Wash Brook, So. Sudbury, Mass.
	Corydalis Vent.	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Worcester turnpike, 6 miles from Boston.
	Corylus L.	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Worcester Turnpike, 7 miles from Boston.
	Hepatica Mill.	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Sweet Auburn.
	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.
	Thalictrum L.	1815	not recorded	Worcester Turnpike.
	Viola L.	1815	Boott, J.W.	Worcester Turnpike, 7 miles from Boston, U.S.A. [Identical locality information is written on the reverse of the sheet.]
	Alnus Mill.	1816	not recorded	Brighton, 4 miles from Boston.
	Aquilegia L.	1816	not recorded	Brighton 3½ miles from Boston.

All 9,714 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Overbrook: 9 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Peat. 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 611977. 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.