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

South Braintree, Massachusetts

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Braintree Town City. It lies in ZIP code area 02184. It stands on Sunset Stream. The Survey maps it on the Blue Hills quadrangle.

South Braintree within Norfolk County

Then and now

1885 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 99 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 Braintree, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of South Braintree, surveyed 1885

Topographic sheets covering this place

38 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

334 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 334 fires within 5 miles of South Braintree between 2015 and 2020, burning about 195 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 ceremony213
Smoking58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWEYMOUTH
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBRAINTREE
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBRAINTREE
5 September 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlQUINCY
5 September 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWEYMOUTH
4 September 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHINGHAM
29 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBRAINTREE
29 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWEYMOUTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 7,173 shown

Museums hold 7,173 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Braintree between 1815 and 1975: 3,614 Plantae, 2,011 Animalia, 1,403 Fungi, 75 Protozoa, 40 Chromista, 23 Unrecorded, 7 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), A C Gibson, A Phelps Wyman 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
Specimen of Lysimachia × producta (A.Gray) FernaldLysimachia × producta (A.Gray) Fernald1900A. P. Chute
A photograph of the species Ranunculus L., not of this specimenRanunculus L.1815not recordedThicket at South Boston.
A photograph of the species Cornus sericea, not of this specimenCornus sericea subsp. sericea1832Nathaniel T. KidderMilton, Brook Road
A photograph of the species Carex echinata, not of this specimenCarex echinata subsp. echinata1834not recorded
A photograph of the species Carex trisperma, not of this specimenCarex trisperma Dewey1836J. W. Robbins
A photograph of the species Salicornia bigelovii, not of this specimenSalicornia bigelovii Torr.1840Welle, J.Hull
A photograph of the species Salsola kali, not of this specimenSalsola kali L.1840Welle, J.Hull
A photograph of the species Cladonia rangiferina, not of this specimenCladonia rangiferina (L.) Weber1844J. L. RussellHingham
A photograph of the species Silene vulgaris, not of this specimenSilene vulgaris (Moench) Garcke1844not recorded
A photograph of the species Galium verum, not of this specimenGalium verum L.1846Kupell
A photograph of the species Carex acutiformis, not of this specimenCarex acutiformis Ehrh.1847Boott, M.South Boston
A photograph of the species Hamamelis virginiana, not of this specimenHamamelis virginiana L.1847Charles F. GirardRoxbury

All 7,173 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 20 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of South Braintree: 11 producers, 9 past producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bates Brothers Realty Trust QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bates Brothers Seam Face Granite CoGranitePast ProducerGranite
Bristol Pit & Plant LorussoStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ernest Minelli Inc QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Margetts QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Marshfield Sand and GravelGranitePast ProducerGranite
Old Colony Crushed StoneGranitePast ProducerGranite
Old Colony QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Plymouth QuarriesGranitePast ProducerGranite
Weymouth QuarryGraniteProducer

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms nearby

9 since 2008

The National Weather Service names South Braintree in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2010LightningSouth Braintree$250,000A house on Central Avenue caught fire after being struck by lightning. The fire spread quickly turning into a three alarm fire and causing substantial damage to the house. No one was home at the time of the fire.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSouth Braintree$15,000A trained spotter reported a wind gust to 62 mph. Numerous trees and wires across Braintree and Holbrook were downed by thunderstorm winds. One of these trees landed on a car on Roseway Street in Holbrook.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindSouth Braintree$5,000A tree on Russell Road in Braintree was downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2008FloodSouth Braintree$5,000Heavy rain resulted in street flooding in several communities across Norfolk County. In Walpole, 50 to 75 feet of Pleasant Street was closed because of water four feet deep in the street. In Norwood, a vehicle was stuck in flood waters with the road impassable. And in Braintree, Union Street was flooded from poor drainage overflow where it crosses under the MBTA railroad bridge.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSouth Braintree$2,000Wires on Commercial Street were downed by thunderstorm winds.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindSouth Braintree$1,000In Braintree at 605 PM EDT, a resident reported a 64 mph wind gust on their home anemometer. Damage in the immediate area was mostly downed tree limbs.
June 2019HailSouth Braintree-At 2:09 PM EST, three-quarter inch diameter hail was reported at Braintree MA.
October 2012FloodSouth Braintree-The 600 block of Washington Street was flooded.
June 2010HailSouth Braintree-Quarter sized hail fell along the Braintree/Quincy line.

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
Braintree1.5 miles38
Braintree Highlands1.6 miles42
East Braintree2.2 miles38
Five Corners2.3 miles42
Weymouth Landing2.6 miles38
South Commons2.6 miles38
South Quincy2.7 miles42
Old Boat Point3.0 miles38

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.

Wikidata item Q122553361The 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 613003. 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.