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

Pondville, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Norfolk town. It lies in ZIP code area 02056. It stands on Stony Brook. The Survey maps it on the Wrentham quadrangle.

Pondville within Norfolk County

Then and now

1887 to 1989

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.

Topographic sheet of Pondville, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Pondville, surveyed 1887

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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Norfolk town, in the words of 1884.

1884, Norfolk Town

David S. Coolidge

He comes of early Colonial ancestry, being a lineal descendant in the eighth generation of John Coolidge, an early English immigrant, who was made a freeman at VVatertown, Middlesex County, this State, in 1636. Simon Coolidge, son of John, was the father of Obadiah and the grandfather of Joseph Coolidge, who was killed at the battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775.

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Fires nearby

156 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Pondville between 2007 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	53
Smoking	24
Debris and open burning	13
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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
3 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FOXBORO
25 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MEDFIELD
23 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	SHARON
22 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
20 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	SHARON
15 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
15 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FOXBORO
14 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WRENTHAM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,269 shown

Museums hold 2,269 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pondville between 1870 and 1975: 1,002 Fungi, 669 Plantae, 460 Animalia, 102 Protozoa, 16 Chromista, 15 Unrecorded, 5 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A Herz, A. A. Eaton 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
Clethra alnifolia L.	1900	J. G. Hall
Pyrola elliptica Nutt.	1900	Leavitt,S.D. s.n. [1900-06]	[label: O. Leonhardt, Nossen i. S. Germania. Berliner Botanischer Tauschverein] Flora Am. bor.: North Easton (Mass.)
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
Trichophorum planifolium (Spreng.) Palla	1870	Joseph Blake	Sharon
Hamamelis virginiana L.	1871	T. Morong
Ranunculus trichophyllus Chaix	1871	Joseph Blake	Sharon
Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman	1874	not recorded
Nitella tenuissima (Desv.) Kütz.	1874	Piper, S. M.
Thelypteris phegopteris (L.) Sloss.	1874	not recorded
Carex vestita Willd.	1875	Collector unspecified	Norfolk.

All 2,269 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 18 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Pondville: 8 past producers, 8 producers, 2 unknowns. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Iron. 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
Bates Bros Quarry	Granite	Producer
Iron Mountain Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Walpole Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Wrentham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Wrentham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Chestnut Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dedham Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dedham Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
J Colella and Son Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Norfolk Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms nearby

3 since 2009

The National Weather Service names Pondville in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2018: 2 flash flood, 1 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
July 2010	Flood	Pondville	$20,000	Heavy rain flooded several streets in Foxborough, including Cocasset and Elm Streets. Cars were stranded at Chestnut and Baker Streets.
June 2009	Flash Flood	Pondville	$20,000	Numerous streets were flooded, resulting in their closure after two to three inches of rain fell in an hour across much of Foxborough. Also, many basements were flooded.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Pondville	-	At 12:38 PM EST, Dedham Street near the Village Green Nurseries in Norfolk was flooded and impassable.

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
West Foxboro	1.5 miles	39
South Walpole	1.8 miles	39
North Foxboro	2.0 miles	39
Wrentham	2.6 miles	39
Cedar	2.7 miles	39
Highland Lake	2.7 miles	43
Norfolk	2.7 miles	39
Campbells Station	2.8 miles	43

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612106. 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.