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

Randolph, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Randolph Town City. It lies in ZIP code area 02368. It stands on Mary Lee Brook. The Survey maps it on the Blue Hills quadrangle.

Randolph 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 Randolph, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Randolph, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

42 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Twelve-mile Stone, Old Street, Randolph, Norfolk County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

291 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 291 fires within 5 miles of Randolph between 2015 and 2020, burning about 142 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	126
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	62
Debris and open burning	56
Smoking	34
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Natural	2
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
7 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BRAINTREE
7 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BRAINTREE
29 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BRAINTREE
28 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WEYMOUTH
28 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BRAINTREE
25 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	STOUGHTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 6,689 shown

Museums hold 6,689 specimens collected within 10 miles of Randolph between 1832 and 1975: 2,900 Plantae, 1,870 Animalia, 1,722 Fungi, 145 Protozoa, 29 Chromista, 19 Unrecorded, 4 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), A W Cheever, 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
Lysimachia × producta (A.Gray) Fernald	1900	A. P. Chute
Cornus sericea subsp. sericea	1832	Nathaniel T. Kidder	Milton, Brook Road
Carex trisperma Dewey	1836	J. W. Robbins
Cladonia rangiferina (L.) Weber	1844	J. L. Russell	Hingham
Galium verum L.	1846	Kupell
Lopadium disciforme (Flot.) Kullh.	1848	J. L. Russell
Cladonia gracilis (L.) Willd.	1849	J. L. Russell	Hingham
Spyridia filamentosa (Wulfen) Harv.	1849	see Collection Note
Frullania asagrayana Mont.	1850	J. L. Russell
Hypnum curvifolium Hedw.	1851	W. L. Russell	Hingham
Lobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm.	1851	J. L. Russell
Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)	1852	S. Baird	Hingham Massachusetts

All 6,689 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 14 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Randolph: 8 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 5 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Simeone Stone Corp	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Stoughton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
A A Will Materials Cord	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
A Edward Sarni	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Avon Building Supply Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Avon Building Supply Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Boston Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Braintree Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Canton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Canton Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms nearby

15 since 2000

The National Weather Service names Randolph in 15 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 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 2013	Lightning	Randolph	$20,000	Lightning struck a detached garage on Bonnie Avenue, igniting a fire. There were no vehicles in the garage but there was damage to other household possessions and belongings.
July 2018	Flood	Randolph	$10,000	At 11:26 AM EST, heavy rain caused street flooding in Randolph at the intersection of Warren Street and Highland Avenue. Multiple cars were trapped in the flooding. Rainfall of 1.90 inches was reported in nearby Stoughton Massachusetts.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Randolph	$5,000	In Randolph, a tree was down on a house on Howe Circle.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Randolph	$2,000	A large tree, wires, and limbs on Union, Smith, and Bartlett Streets were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	North Randolph	$600	In Randolph, a large limb was down at the intersection of Dorr Street and Vinton Street. \|Power lines were down at Dorr and Russ Street. Time approximate based on radar.
November 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Randolph	$500	In Randolph, a tree was down on Clark Street.
July 2025	Flash Flood	North Randolph	-	In Randolph, north Main St. by Forest St was flooded and impassable.
June 2020	Flood	Randolph	-	In Randolph, Highland Glen Drive at Gloversbrook Road was flooded and impassable. Flooding on Highland Glen Drive extended westward to Birchwood Road and Bittersweet Lane. A car was stuck on Leavitt Brook Road at Highland Glen. Four cars were stranded at Highland Avenue at Warren Street, due to two feet of standing water from torrential rains. Another car was stuck on Plain Street at Howard Street.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Randolph	-	At 12:08 PM EST, Highland Avenue and Warren Street and Diauto Drive in Randolph were flooded and impassable.
September 2013	Flash Flood	North Randolph	-	Two feet of water flooded Route 28 in front of the fire station. The road was closed for approximately an hour while the water receded.
August 2014	Hail	Randolph	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Randolph	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Randolph	-	no account filed
March 2001	Heavy Rain	Randolph	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Randolph	-	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
Holbrook	1.8 miles	42
North Stoughton	1.9 miles	42
Braintree Highlands	1.9 miles	42
Avon	2.2 miles	42
West Corners (historical)	2.2 miles	42
North Randolph	2.6 miles	42
Brookville	3.1 miles	42
South Braintree	3.4 miles	38

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612988. 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.