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

South Foxboro, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Foxborough town. It lies in ZIP code area 02035. The Survey maps it on the Wrentham quadrangle.

South Foxboro 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 Foxboro, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of South Foxboro, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

39 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

102 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of South Foxboro between 2015 and 2020, burning about 46 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40
Recreation and ceremony	33
Smoking	16
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5

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
3 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FOXBORO
27 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE
27 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE
26 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE
23 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE
22 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE
15 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,412 shown

Museums hold 1,412 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Foxboro between 1870 and 1975: 639 Fungi, 441 Plantae, 215 Animalia, 87 Protozoa, 16 Chromista, 9 Unrecorded, 5 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour 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
Pyrola elliptica Nutt.	1900	Leavitt,S.D. s.n. [1900-06]	[label: O. Leonhardt, Nossen i. S. Germania. Berliner Botanischer Tauschverein] Flora Am. bor.: North Easton (Mass.)
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
Hamamelis virginiana L.	1871	T. Morong
Ranunculus trichophyllus Chaix	1871	Joseph Blake	Sharon
Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman	1874	not recorded
Thelypteris phegopteris (L.) Sloss.	1874	not recorded
Carex vestita Willd.	1875	Collector unspecified	Norfolk.
Carex echinata var. echinata	1876	W. P. Rich

All 1,412 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 22 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of South Foxboro: 13 past producers, 8 producers, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. 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
Glines & Rhodes Refin.--Plainville	Gold, PGE, Silver	Past Producer
Masslite Pit	Clay, Stone	Producer
Plainville	Bloating Material	Producer	Sedimentary
Simeone Stone Corporation	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Masslite	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Plainville Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Wrentham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Wrentham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Wrentham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Boro Sand and Stone Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms nearby

1 since 2023

The National Weather Service names South Foxboro in 1 storm report between 2023 and 2023: 1 flash 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
August 2023	Flash Flood	South Foxboro	-	In Foxborough, there was 1 foot of street flooding in the right lane of 495 south.

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
Foxboro	1.9 miles	40
Foxvale	2.0 miles	40
Shepardville	2.2 miles	39
Foxborough	2.3 miles	40
Wilkins Four Corners	2.6 miles	39
West Foxboro	2.6 miles	39
North Foxboro	2.8 miles	39
Wampum Rock	3.2 miles	39

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 Q122566886

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 612116. 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.