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South Bellingham, Massachusetts

44 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bellingham town. It lies in ZIP code area 02019. It stands on Scott Hill. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle.

South Bellingham 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 South Bellingham, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of South Bellingham, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

44 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

75 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of South Bellingham between 2006 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony17
Arson/incendiarism15
Smoking10
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBELLINGHAM
27 September 2015Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBELLINGHAM
27 September 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBELLINGHAM
25 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBELLINGHAM
23 September 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresRhode Island Division of Forest Environmentnot named
17 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlFRANKLIN
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlFRANKLIN
13 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlFRANKLIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 182 shown

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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Polygala paucifolia, not of this specimenPolygala paucifolia Willd.1843ShoreWoonsocket
A photograph of the species Nitella tenuissima, not of this specimenNitella tenuissima (Desv.) Kütz.1874Piper, S. M.
A photograph of the species Carex vestita, not of this specimenCarex vestita Willd.1875Collector unspecifiedNorfolk.
A photograph of the species Loxia curvirostra, not of this specimenLoxia curvirostra minor (C.L.Brehm, 1846)1877Charles A. HoughtonWest Medway
A photograph of the species Passerina cyanea, not of this specimenPasserina cyanea (Linnaeus, 1766)1877Charles A. HoughtonWest Medway
A photograph of the species Podiceps auritus, not of this specimenPodiceps auritus cornutus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1881Daniel DuncanWest Medway
A photograph of the species Acorus americanus, not of this specimenAcorus americanus (Raf.) Raf.1884Nathaniel T. KidderCharles River, above Medfield
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium clavariiforme, not of this specimenGymnosporangium clavariiforme (Wulfen) DC.1885A. B. Seymour
A photograph of the species Isotria verticillata, not of this specimenIsotria verticillata (Muhl. ex Willd.) Raf.1885PufferBellingham
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium nidus-avis, not of this specimenGymnosporangium nidus-avis Thaxt.1891A.B. Seymour
A photograph of the species Benthamidia florida, not of this specimenBenthamidia florida (L.) Spach1893not recorded
A photograph of the species Diaporthe Nitschke, not of this specimenDiaporthe Nitschke, 18701893E. A. Burt

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

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 17 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of South Bellingham: 12 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Copper HillMolybdenumOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Scheelite
Copper Mine HillTungsten, Copper, Garnet, Molybdenum, IronOccurrenceMagnetite, Scheelite
Five Star Mineral and Mining CoGoldPast Producer
Foster ProspectArsenic, Uranium, Thorium, REEProspect
Iron Mine HillIron, TitaniumProspect
Iron Mine Hill DepositIron, Titanium, Metal, VanadiumPast Producer
Iron Mine Hill DepositIron, CopperPast ProducerMagnetite
Sheldonville MineCopper, Silver, GoldPast ProducerVein
Sheldonville MineSilver, GoldPast Producer
Candlewood Recreation AreaSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms nearby

5 since 2017

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017LightningSouth Bellingham$7,000At 215 PM EST, wires were reported down due to a lightning strike on a utility pole on South Main Street at Laurel Lane in Bellingham.
June 2023LightningSouth Bellingham$5,000In Franklin, lightning started a house fire on Prospect Street.
June 2020FloodSouth Bellingham$2,000In Franklin, a basement was flooded on Washington Street.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSouth Bellingham$1,000In the southern part of Bellingham, a large tree was down on power lines at Pulaski Blvd.
December 2020FloodSouth Bellingham-In Bellingham at 1044 AM EST, a car was stuck in street flooding on Newland Avenue.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Rakeville1.3 miles44
Crooks Corner1.4 miles44
Scott Hill Acres1.8 miles44
Maple Ridge2.3 miles44
Wadsworth2.4 miles44
Bellingham3.1 miles44
Charles River Grove3.5 miles44
Midland3.6 miles44

Provenance

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.