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

South Sherborn, Massachusetts

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sherborn town. It lies in ZIP code area 01770. It stands on Sewall Brook. The Survey maps it on the Medfield quadrangle.

South Sherborn within Middlesex 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 Sherborn, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of South Sherborn, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

43 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

14,425 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 Sherborn Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Sherborn Town - 14,425 words.

Fires nearby

86 since 2016

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of South Sherborn between 2016 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Fireworks	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
9 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
26 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WELLESLEY
1 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	ASHLAND
1 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	SHERBORN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,148 shown

Museums hold 1,148 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Sherborn between 1898 and 1975: 856 Animalia, 187 Plantae, 103 Fungi, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & M. D. Feigley, A. L. Bosworth 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
Actaea pachypoda Elliott	1898	Ernest Charles Smith
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
Agonopterix atrodorsella Clemens, 1863	1900	E. J. Smith	Sherborn
Apantesis Walker, 1855	1900	E. J. Smith	Sherborn
Apatelodes torrefacta J.E.Smith, 1797	1900	E. J. Smith	Sherborn
Archips cerasivorana (Fitch, 1856)	1900	E. J. Smith	Sherborn
Bleptina caradrinalis Guenée, 1854	1900	E. J. Smith	Sherborn
Boletus auriporus Peck	1900	G. E. Morris

All 1,148 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 15 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of South Sherborn: 10 past producers, 3 producers, 2 plants. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Hawkridge Bros--Ashland, Ma.	Iron	Plant
Holliston Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Needham Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Simeone Stone Corp	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Holliston Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Holliston Sand Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Irving Trucking Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Irving Trucking Company, Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lowland Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Medway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Middlesex County

Storms nearby

1 since 2021

The National Weather Service names South Sherborn in 1 storm report between 2021 and 2021: 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
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	South Sherborn	$500	In Sherborn, a tree was down on South Main Street (Route 27) at Bullard Street (Route 115).

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
Sherborn	1.3 miles	43
Morseville	2.5 miles	46
Whitneys	3.0 miles	41
East Holliston	3.5 miles	41
Gooch Corners	3.8 miles	41
West Natick	3.9 miles	40
South Natick	4.0 miles	46
Holliston	4.0 miles	41

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 Q122553874

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 612003. 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.