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

West Concord, Massachusetts

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Concord town. It lies in ZIP code area 01742. It stands on Fort Pond Brook. The Survey maps it on the Maynard quadrangle. 6,320 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 118 feet above sea level.

West Concord within Middlesex County

Population over time

2 figures

West Concord grew from 6,028 to 6,320 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	6,028
2020	6,320	+292 (+5%)

Then and now

1886 to 1989

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.

Topographic sheet of West Concord, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of West Concord, surveyed 1886

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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Concord town, in the words of 1908.

1908, Concord Town

Chapter Iv

Philip's War. - State of the Country. - Garrison Houses. - Expedition to Brookfield. - Proceedings of Government} and of the Town. - Lancaster burnt. - Christian Indians in Concord. - Feelings towards the Indians. - Abraham and Isaac Shepherd killed. - Groton burnt. - People remove to Concord. - Proceedings of Government.

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Fires nearby

41 since 1997

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of West Concord between 1997 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
5 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
16 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
19 July 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 June 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
2 June 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	SUDBURY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 845 shown

Museums hold 845 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Concord between 1898 and 1975: 534 Animalia, 177 Plantae, 125 Fungi, 4 Chromista, 4 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & M. D. Feigley, A. E. Feldman 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
Boletus griseus Frost	1898	H. Webster
Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1898	Collector(s): Will C. Colt	Lincoln
Lophodermium pinastri (Schrad.) Chevall.	1898	Hubbard F. T.; Hall G. G.	Lincoln
Neolentinus lepideus (Fr.) Redhead & Ginns	1898	not recorded	Weston.
Pipilo erythrophthalmus erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1898	not recorded	Lincoln
Podura aquatica C.Linnæus, 1758	1898	not recorded
Rosa nitida Willd.	1898	C. H. Knowlton
Salix eriocephala Michx.	1898	E. F. Williams
Taraxacum laevigatum (Willd.) DC.	1898	E. F. Williams
Agaricus brunnescens Peck	1900	Morris, G. E.	Waltham
Araiospora pulchra Thaxt.	1900	Thaxter, Roland	Stony Brook, Mass. [Massachusetts]

All 845 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 14 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of West Concord: 8 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
Carlisle Deposit	Copper	Occurrence
Cu Prospect	Copper	Past Producer
Acton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Acton Pit--Assabet S & G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Acton Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Acton Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Assabet Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Britt Construction	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Britt Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kennedy Brothers Acton Sand and Gra	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Middlesex County

Storms nearby

5 since 2008

The National Weather Service names West Concord in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	West Concord	$4,000	In West Concord, a tree was uprooted and a tree was split in half on Wright Road and a telephone pole was down on Laws Brook Road.
June 2017	Flood	West Concord	$1,000	At 426 PM EST, Shirley Street in Concord was reported flooded and impassable.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	West Concord	$1,000	At 4 PM EST, a tree was reported down on Ridgewood Road in Concord.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	West Concord	$1,000	Trees and wires were downed around West Street.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	West Concord	$300	In Acton, a tree was blocking a lane of travel.

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
East Acton	1.4 miles	43
Damons Mills Westvale	1.7 miles	43
Plain	2.1 miles	48
Nine Acre Corner	2.3 miles	43
Concord	2.5 miles	48
Acton	2.7 miles	43
South Acton	3.1 miles	43
Kelly Corner	3.3 miles	43

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.

Wikipedia article on West Concord	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7984865	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 611517. 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.