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

South Lincoln, Massachusetts

48 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lincoln town. It lies in ZIP code area 01773. It stands on Hathaway Hill. The Survey maps it on the Concord quadrangle.

South Lincoln 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 South Lincoln, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of South Lincoln, 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

13,190 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 Lincoln Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Lincoln Town - 13,190 words.

Fires nearby

52 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of South Lincoln between 1992 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
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
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
16 September 2020	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
3 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
26 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 August 2018	Debris and open burning	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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,488 shown

Museums hold 1,488 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Lincoln between 1898 and 1975: 772 Animalia, 399 Plantae, 294 Fungi, 9 Chromista, 6 Unrecorded, 4 Bacteria, 4 Protozoa. 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
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
Aquilegia canadensis L.	1898	M. I. Gunn	Natick
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
Boletus auriporus Peck	1900	G. E. Morris
Boletus badius (Fr.) Fr.	1900	G. E. Morris
Boletus rubropunctus Peck	1900	G. E. Morris

All 1,488 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 South Lincoln: 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

2 since 2008

The National Weather Service names South Lincoln in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 1 lightning, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2008	Lightning	South Lincoln	$15,000	Lightning struck DeCordova Museum. Unspecified damage was reported.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	South Lincoln	$3,300	In Lincoln, two large trees were down with wires down on Old Concord Road. A tree was down on Route 126. A tree was down on wires at the intersection of Huntley Lane and Farrar Road. A large branch was down on the 1400 block of Concord Road.

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
Baker Bridge	1.1 miles	48
Lincoln	1.4 miles	48
Silver Hill	1.8 miles	48
Hastings	2.7 miles	48
Nine Acre Corner	2.9 miles	43
Meriams Corner	3.2 miles	48
Tower Hill	3.2 miles	46
Kendal Green	3.3 miles	48

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 611875. 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.