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

Sharon, Massachusetts

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sharon town. It lies in ZIP code area 02067. It stands on Bald Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mansfield quadrangle. 6,184 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 295 feet above sea level.

Sharon within Norfolk County

Population over time

2 figures

Sharon grew from 5,658 to 6,184 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	5,658
2020	6,184	+526 (+9%)

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 Sharon, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Sharon, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

40 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

161 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Sharon between 2015 and 2020, burning about 50 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
Recreation and ceremony	62
Smoking	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	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	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	STOUGHTON
5 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	SHARON
5 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	SHARON
26 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	SHARON
25 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	STOUGHTON
23 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	SHARON
20 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	SHARON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 4,958 shown

Museums hold 4,958 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sharon between 1846 and 1975: 2,034 Plantae, 1,408 Fungi, 1,338 Animalia, 132 Protozoa, 22 Chromista, 19 Unrecorded, 5 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, 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
Clethra alnifolia L.	1900	J. G. Hall
Hieracium venosum L.	1900	E. F. Williams	Blue Hills Reservation
Lysimachia × producta (A.Gray) Fernald	1900	A. P. Chute
Galium verum L.	1846	Kupell
Carex bullata Schkuhr	1853	Collector unknown	Houghtons Pond.
Carex albicans Willd. ex Spreng.	1854	W. Boott	West Quincy: Blue Hills Reservation, River Road
Chamberlainia salebrosa (Hoffm. ex F.Weber & D.Mohr) H.Rob.	1857	T. P. James	Randolph
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
Carex panicea L.	1871	not recorded

All 4,958 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 12 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Sharon: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Iron Mountain Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Thorn Mountain Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
A A Will Materials Cord	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Dedham Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dedham Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Farnham Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Robbins Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sansone Brothers	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Stoughton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Town of Soughton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms nearby

12 since 2002

The National Weather Service names Sharon in 12 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 lightning, 2 flood, 1 hail. 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
May 2004	Lightning	Sharon	$25,000	no account filed
June 2016	Lightning	Sharon	$10,000	A house on Wadsworth Way was struck by lightning. This resulted in electrical and structural damage.
July 2013	Lightning	Sharon	$5,000	Lightning struck a house on Tracey Lane, igniting a fire.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Sharon	$5,000	Trees, large branches, and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2008	Lightning	Sharon	$5,000	The Quincy Patriot Ledger reported that lightning hit a shed in Sharon starting a fire that spread to an adjacent house. No one was injured.
February 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Sharon	$2,000	A large branch and wires in Sharon were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Sharon	$2,000	no account filed
July 2025	Flash Flood	Sharon	-	In Sharon, significant street flooding was reported on Canton St, Norwood St, Hampton Rd by Oak Hill Dr, and on Dean St at the railroad bridge. A car was stuck in flooding on Commercial St.
September 2022	Flood	Sharon	-	In Sharon, low lying portions of Beach St were flooded near Sharon High School. Relayed by amateur radio.
August 2015	Flood	Sharon	-	A portion of Billings Street was flooded.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Sharon	-	Large tree blocking road.
August 2006	Hail	Sharon	-	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
East Sharon	1.2 miles	41
Sharon Heights	1.4 miles	40
Walpole Heights	2.7 miles	41
Canton Junction	2.8 miles	41
West Stoughton	2.9 miles	42
Canton	3.0 miles	41
East Walpole	3.1 miles	41
Springdale	3.3 miles	41

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Sharon	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7489964	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612529. 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.