Summer Heights, 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 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

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Summer Heights between 2015 and 2020, burning about 99 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:

• Ponkapoag
• Norwood
• Winslows
• Ashcroft
• Canton
• Canton Junction

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Museums hold 8,065 specimens collected within 10 miles of Summer Heights between 1832 and 1975: 3,316 Plantae, 2,530 Animalia, 1,984 Fungi, 151 Protozoa, 44 Chromista, 26 Unrecorded, 14 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
	Cornus sericea subsp. sericea	1832	Nathaniel T. Kidder	Milton, Brook Road
	Galium verum L.	1846	Kupell
	Calycanthus L.	1850	not recorded	Hort. Cantab. [presumably cultivated Hortus Cantabridgiensis, Botanical Garden Harvard University] e Georgia.
	Malvastrum A.Gray	1850	not recorded	Hort. Cantab. [=Hortus Cantabridgiensis, Botanical Garden Harvard University].
	Assiminea succinea (L.Pfeiffer, 1840)	1852	not recorded	Roxbury, Boston
	Boerhavia Vaill. ex L.	1852	not recorded	Hort. Cantab. [Presumably cultivated Hortus Cantabridgiensis, Botanical Garden Harvard University].
	Ellobiidae	1852	Portland Society of Natural History	Roxbury, Boston
	Fissurellidae	1852	Portland Society of Natural History	Roxbury, Boston
	Hydrobiidae	1852	Portland Society of Natural History	Roxbury, Boston
	Nassariidae	1852	not recorded	Roxbury, Boston
	Paravitrea multidentata (A.Binney, 1840)	1852	not recorded	S Boston, Roxbury

All 8,065 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Summer Heights: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Iron. 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.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612535. 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.