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

West Stoughton, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Stoughton town. It lies in ZIP code area 02072. It stands on Steep Hill Brook. The Survey maps it on the Norwood quadrangle.

West Stoughton within Norfolk County

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 Stoughton, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of West Stoughton, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

42 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.

Fires nearby

179 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of West Stoughton between 2015 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 1 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	53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50
Smoking	36
Debris and open burning	31
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Natural	1
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
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON
7 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	STOUGHTON
6 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
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
24 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROCKTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 5,847 shown

Museums hold 5,847 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Stoughton between 1832 and 1975: 2,578 Plantae, 1,627 Animalia, 1,472 Fungi, 132 Protozoa, 20 Chromista, 13 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Clethra alnifolia L.	1900	J. G. Hall
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
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 5,847 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 13 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of West Stoughton: 8 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.

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
A Edward Sarni	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
Klondyke Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms nearby

4 since 2009

The National Weather Service names West Stoughton in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2009	Lightning	West Stoughton	$500,000	Lightning struck the roof of a condo at Knollsbrook Condominiums. The resultant fire spread to two other units. Three firefighters were treated for heat exhaustion and dehydration while fighting the fire. One was transported to the hospital. These injuries were indirectly related to the lightning strike.
August 2012	Flash Flood	West Stoughton	$35,000	A car was trapped in floodwaters on Independence Avenue in Quincy. In Weymouth, Fogg Street was flooded with several inches of water at the entrance to the South Shore Emergency Room entrance. Columbian Street at Nevin Road was flooded with four feet of water. Bodwell Drive in Avon was flooded with several cars stuck in flood waters. Several feet of water on Route 37 in Braintree near the Mutual gas station closed the road. A car was stuck in flood waters at the intersection of Union Street and Grossman Drive. In Stoughton, three to four inches of water flooded the travel lanes on Route 27.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	West Stoughton	$3,200	In Stoughton, a tree and wires were down on Lakewood Drive, Pine Street, Access Road, and Brook Street.
August 2023	Flash Flood	West Stoughton	-	In Canton, North Main St at Bay Rd was flooded.

Every storm recorded in Norfolk 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
Four Corners	0.8 miles	42
Belchers Corner (historical)	0.9 miles	42
Stoughton	1.2 miles	42
Springdale	1.7 miles	41
East Sharon	2.0 miles	41
Canton	2.3 miles	41
South Stoughton	2.5 miles	39
Stoughton Junction	2.7 miles	39

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.

Wikidata item Q122568958

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 612546. 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.