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

Silver Hill, Massachusetts

48 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Weston town. It lies in ZIP code area 02493. It stands on Cherry Brook. The Survey maps it on the Concord quadrangle.

Silver Hill within Middlesex 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 Silver Hill, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Silver Hill, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

48 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.

In the 1908 county history

25,965 words on this township

The county history of 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Weston Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Weston Town - 25,965 words.

Fires nearby

54 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Silver Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	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
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Minute Man National Historical Park	FISKEHILL
26 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,754 shown

Museums hold 1,754 specimens collected within 10 miles of Silver Hill between 1898 and 1975: 856 Animalia, 495 Plantae, 369 Fungi, 10 Bacteria, 9 Chromista, 8 Protozoa, 7 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & M. D. Feigley 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
Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822	1900	not recorded	Wayland
Trientalis borealis Raf.	1900	A. P. Chute
Actaea pachypoda Elliott	1898	Ernest Charles Smith
Aglaospora profusa (Fr.) De Not.	1898	Collector unspecified
Antennaria howellii subsp. canadensis (Greene) R.J.Bayer	1898	Williams, E.F.
Antennaria parlinii subsp. fallax (Greene) R.J.Bayer & Stebbins	1898	not recorded
Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Hook.	1898	not recorded
Acer carpinifolium Siebold & Zucc.	1900	A. K. Harrison	Harvard Botanic Garden, Cambridge.
Acer palmatum var. dissectum (Thunb.) Miq.	1900	A. K. Harrison	Harvard Botanic Garden, Cambridge.
Agaricus brunnescens Peck	1900	Morris, G. E.	Waltham
Araiospora pulchra Thaxt.	1900	Thaxter, Roland	Stony Brook, Mass. [Massachusetts]
Betula alleghaniensis Britton	1900	E. F. Williams

All 1,754 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Silver Hill: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Burton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Massachusetts Broken Stone Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Pepperell Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Weston Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Middlesex County

Storms nearby

3 since 2015

The National Weather Service names Silver Hill in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2018: 3 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
June 2018	Flood	Silver Hill	-	At 12:30 AM EST, Winter Street along the western side of the Cambridge Reservoir in Waltham was reported flooded and impassable.
July 2017	Flood	Silver Hill	-	At 604 PM EST, Second Avenue in Waltham was impassable due to flooding. Flooding was also reported on Sutton Avenue.
September 2015	Flood	Silver Hill	-	Winter Street was flooded with three feet of water in front of the Embassy Suites Hotel.

Every storm recorded in Middlesex 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
Hastings	0.9 miles	48
Kendal Green	1.6 miles	48
South Lincoln	1.8 miles	48
Weston Station	1.8 miles	46
Weston	2.0 miles	46
Prospectville	2.1 miles	48
Lincoln	2.1 miles	48
Tower Hill	2.7 miles	46

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 611872. 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.