Wellesley Hills, 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

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

• Intermediate Buildinglisted 1981

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 Framingham quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
• 1918 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Natick quadrangle1:31680, 5 printings
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Natick quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Natick quadrangle1:31680
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Natick quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1970 USGS Natick quadrangle1:24000
• 1970 USGS Natick quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Natick quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Framingham quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Wellesley Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Wellesley Hills between 2015 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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:

• Grantville
• Wellesley
• Babson Park
• Charles River Station
• Charles River Village
• Wellesley Farms

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 13,299 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wellesley Hills between 1805 and 1975: 5,458 Animalia, 3,790 Fungi, 3,614 Plantae, 191 Protozoa, 168 Chromista, 46 Unrecorded, 32 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, ? ex Herb. W.G. Farlow, 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
	Araiospora pulchra Thaxt.	1900	R. Thaxter	Stony Brook
	Hypoprepia fucosa Hübner, 1831	1900	not recorded	Sherborn
	Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)	1805	Bryant, O.	Wash Brook, So. Sudbury, Mass.
	Corydalis Vent.	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Worcester turnpike, 6 miles from Boston.
	Corylus L.	1815	not recorded	Cambridge Port, 2 miles from Boston.
	Hepatica Mill.	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Sweet Auburn.
	Nuphar Sm.	1815	Boott, J.W.	Worcester Turnpike 6 miles from Boston.
	Populus L.	1815	not recorded	Cambridgeport, 1 mile from Boston.
	Salix L.	1815	not recorded	Cambridge, 3 1/2 miles from Boston.
	Sassafras J.Presl	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Worcester Turnpike, 6 miles from Boston.
	Thalictrum L.	1815	not recorded	Worcester Turnpike.
	Viola L.	1815	Boott, J.W.	Worcester Turnpike, 7 miles from Boston, U.S.A. [Identical locality information is written on the reverse of the sheet.]

All 13,299 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Wellesley Hills: 8 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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 612024. 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.