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

Rockville, Massachusetts

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Millis town. It lies in ZIP code area 02054. It stands on Mill River. The Survey maps it on the Medfield quadrangle.

Rockville 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 Rockville, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Rockville, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

43 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

112 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Rockville between 2007 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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	49
Recreation and ceremony	32
Debris and open burning	15
Smoking	11
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	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
9 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
25 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MEDFIELD
17 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FRANKLIN
16 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FRANKLIN
15 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FRANKLIN
13 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FRANKLIN
11 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WRENTHUM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 5,695 shown

Museums hold 5,695 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rockville between 1867 and 1975: 3,677 Animalia, 1,043 Fungi, 840 Plantae, 88 Protozoa, 23 Chromista, 22 Unrecorded, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Herz, A. A. Eaton, 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Hypoprepia fucosa Hübner, 1831	1900	not recorded	Sherborn
Grammia arge Drury, 1773	1867	not recorded	Sherborn
Polygonum coccineum Muhl. ex Willd.	1869	Morong, T.	Natick
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
Utricularia gibba L.	1871	W. Edwards
Operophtera bruceata (Hulst, 1886)	1873	not recorded	Sherborn
Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman	1874	not recorded

All 5,695 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 19 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Rockville: 10 past producers, 8 producers, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Granite, 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
Bates Bros Quarry	Granite	Producer
Needham Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Walpole 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
Franklin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Holliston Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
J Colella and Son Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Medway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms nearby

3 since 2018

The National Weather Service names Rockville in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 1 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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	Flood	Rockville	$2,000	Flooding on Fleetwood Drive cause flooding into the basement of a home on Rockwood Road (Route 115).
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Rockville	$1,000	In Norfolk, a tree was down at the intersection of Holbrook Street at Cleveland Street. \|Another tree was down on Seekonk Street.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Rockville	-	At 11:48 AM EST, Holbrook Street in Norfolk in the area of State Route 115 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
Millis	1.9 miles	43
Medway	2.0 miles	41
Clicquot	2.2 miles	43
City Mills	2.2 miles	39
Norfolk	2.3 miles	39
Highland Lake	2.8 miles	43
Acorn Terrace	3.2 miles	39
Campbells Station	3.3 miles	43

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 611992. 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.