West Foxboro, Massachusetts

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.

1887 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.

• 1887 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1919 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1919 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1921 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1940 USGS Wrentham quadrangle1:31680
• 1940 USGS Wrentham quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
• 1945 USGS Wrentham quadrangle1:24000
• 1946 USGS Wrentham quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Wrentham quadrangle1:31680
• 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
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Wrentham quadrangle1:25000
• 1964 USGS Wrentham quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Wrentham quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:25000
• 1987 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:25000
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of West Foxboro between 2007 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 1 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.

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:

• South Walpole
• Cedar
• Pondville
• Wrentham
• Campbells Station
• Cedar Hill

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Museums hold 2,082 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Foxboro between 1870 and 1975: 899 Fungi, 653 Plantae, 392 Animalia, 102 Protozoa, 16 Chromista, 15 Unrecorded, 5 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour 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
	Clethra alnifolia L.	1900	J. G. Hall
	Pyrola elliptica Nutt.	1900	Leavitt,S.D. s.n. [1900-06]	[label: O. Leonhardt, Nossen i. S. Germania. Berliner Botanischer Tauschverein] Flora Am. bor.: North Easton (Mass.)
	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
	Trichophorum planifolium (Spreng.) Palla	1870	Joseph Blake	Sharon
	Hamamelis virginiana L.	1871	T. Morong
	Ranunculus trichophyllus Chaix	1871	Joseph Blake	Sharon
	Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman	1874	not recorded
	Nitella tenuissima (Desv.) Kütz.	1874	Piper, S. M.
	Thelypteris phegopteris (L.) Sloss.	1874	not recorded
	Carex vestita Willd.	1875	Collector unspecified	Norfolk.

All 2,082 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of West Foxboro: 10 past producers, 9 producers, 2 unknowns. 9 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 617848. 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.