South Bellingham, Massachusetts

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.

1887 1989

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.

• 1887 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1919 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1921 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1939 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:31680
• 1940 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
• 1945 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:24000
• 1946 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1964 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:25000
• 1965 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Norfolk County Manual, and Year Book for 1876, published 1877; History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of South Bellingham between 2002 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Rakeville
• Crooks Corner
• Wadsworth
• Bellingham
• Charles River Grove
• Maple Ridge

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 182 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Bellingham between 1843 and 1973: 89 Animalia, 72 Plantae, 19 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Herz, A. B. Seymour, A. R. Hodgdon 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.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Polygala paucifolia Willd.	1843	Shore	Woonsocket
	Nitella tenuissima (Desv.) Kütz.	1874	Piper, S. M.
	Carex vestita Willd.	1875	Collector unspecified	Norfolk.
	Loxia curvirostra minor (C.L.Brehm, 1846)	1877	Charles A. Houghton	West Medway
	Passerina cyanea (Linnaeus, 1766)	1877	Charles A. Houghton	West Medway
	Podiceps auritus cornutus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1881	Daniel Duncan	West Medway
	Acorus americanus (Raf.) Raf.	1884	Nathaniel T. Kidder	Charles River, above Medfield
	Gymnosporangium clavariiforme (Wulfen) DC.	1885	A. B. Seymour
	Isotria verticillata (Muhl. ex Willd.) Raf.	1885	Puffer	Bellingham
	Gymnosporangium nidus-avis Thaxt.	1891	A.B. Seymour
	Benthamidia florida (L.) Spach	1893	not recorded
	Diaporthe Nitschke, 1870	1893	E. A. Burt

All 182 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of South Bellingham: 15 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Copper, Silver, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Bellingham in 5 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 2 lightning, 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Norfolk County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 617810. 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.