South Quincy, Massachusetts

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.

1886 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.

• 1886 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1919 USGS Dedham quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
• 1946 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:25000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:25000
• 1971 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Blue Hills quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:25000
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 312 fires within 5 miles of South Quincy between 2015 and 2020, burning about 180 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.

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:

• Five Corners
• Braintree
• North Commons
• Old Boat Point
• Quincy Center
• Quincy Neck

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Museums hold 9,623 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Quincy between 1810 and 1975: 5,003 Plantae, 2,474 Animalia, 1,699 Fungi, 276 Chromista, 109 Protozoa, 44 Unrecorded, 18 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), ?, A C Gibson 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
	Lysimachia × producta (A.Gray) Fernald	1900	A. P. Chute
	Thalictrum L.	1810	Boott, J.W.	Near Boston.
	Anemone L.	1815	Boott, J.	Andover Turnpike, 7 miles from Boston.
	Corylus L.	1815	not recorded	Cambridge Port, 2 miles from Boston.
	Ericaceae	1815	Boott	Boston, U.S.A.
	Limonium vulgare Mill.	1815	not recorded	On Cragies Road [=near Cragies Bridge], 1 1/2 miles from Boston.
	Mollugo verticillata L.	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Boston.
	Persicaria (L.) Mill.	1815	Boott, J.W.	Craigie's Road, 2 miles from Boston.
	Populus L.	1815	not recorded	Cambridgeport, 1 mile from Boston.
	Ranunculus L.	1815	not recorded	Thicket at South Boston.
	Arenaria serpyllifolia L.	1816	Boott, J.W.	Concord Turnpike, near Boston.
	Cistaceae	1816	Boott, J.W.	Boston.

All 9,623 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of South Quincy: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 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.

Every working 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 613005. 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.