Springdale, Massachusetts
41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Canton town. It lies in ZIP code area 02021. It stands on Beaver Meadow Brook. The Survey maps it on the Norwood quadrangle.
Then and now
1886 to 1989The 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 sheets covering this place
41 sheetsMatched 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 Norwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1941 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:31680
- 1941 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:31680
- 1941 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
- 1946 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1947 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:25000
- 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 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
- 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:25000
- 1970 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Norwood 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
Fires nearby
189 since 2015The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Springdale between 2015 and 2020, burning about 91 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 ceremony | 82 |
| Smoking | 52 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 44 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | STOUGHTON |
| 5 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | SHARON |
| 5 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | SHARON |
| 26 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | SHARON |
| 25 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | STOUGHTON |
| 23 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 12 September 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | STOUGHTON |
| 7 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | WALPOLE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 6,712 shownMuseums hold 6,712 specimens collected within 10 miles of Springdale between 1832 and 1975: 2,848 Plantae, 2,049 Animalia, 1,635 Fungi, 132 Protozoa, 27 Chromista, 16 Unrecorded, 5 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), ?, A W Cheever 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 | |
![]() | Cornus sericea subsp. sericea | 1832 | Nathaniel T. Kidder | Milton, Brook Road |
![]() | Galium verum L. | 1846 | Kupell | |
![]() | Carex bullata Schkuhr | 1853 | Collector unknown | Houghtons Pond. |
![]() | Carex albicans Willd. ex Spreng. | 1854 | W. Boott | West Quincy: Blue Hills Reservation, River Road |
![]() | Chamberlainia salebrosa (Hoffm. ex F.Weber & D.Mohr) H.Rob. | 1857 | T. P. James | Randolph |
![]() | Numenius borealis (J.R.Forster, 1772) | 1866 | not recorded | Dorchester |
![]() | 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 | ||
![]() | Pyrenopsis phylliscina (Tuck.) Tuck. | 1870 | H. Willey | West Quincy. |
![]() | Rhynchospora macrostachya Torr. ex A.Gray | 1870 | Booth, W. | South Weymouth |
All 6,712 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
10 of 11 shownThe federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Springdale: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorn Mountain Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Simeone Stone Corp | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Stoughton Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| A A Will Materials Cord | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Boston Sand and Gravel Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Canton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Canton Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Farnham Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sharon Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Stoughton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canton | 0.9 miles | 41 | |
| Four Corners | 1.7 miles | 42 | |
| West Stoughton | 1.7 miles | 42 | |
| Belchers Corner (historical) | 1.7 miles | 42 | |
| Canton Junction | 1.8 miles | 41 | |
| Summer Heights | 2.0 miles | 41 | |
| East Sharon | 2.1 miles | 41 | |
| Stoughton | 2.4 miles | 42 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612533. 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.



















































