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

Weston, Massachusetts

46 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Weston town. It lies in ZIP code area 02493. It stands on Pigeon Hill. The Survey maps it on the Natick quadrangle.

Weston within Middlesex 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 Weston, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Weston, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

46 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.

In the county-history sources

25,965 words on this township

History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts : Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Weston Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The territory of the original town of Watertown was so extensive that its several parts were very early known by distinct and peculiar names. The lands next west of Beaver Brook were called " the lots in the Further Plain," or the Great Plain (and later Waltham Plain). The Remote or West Pine Meadows were probably in the southern or southeastern parts of Weston. The Lieu of Township Lots, or lots beyond the Further Plain, were west of Waltham Plain, south of the Great Dividends, and extended beyond Stony Brook. The Farms, or Farm Lands, included what remained as far as the Sudbury and Dedham bounds, comprising the main portion of Weston.

Passage source: History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts : Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County, published 1880.

These names, applied in general terms to divisions of the territory of the original town of Watertown, are used in the early grants to the freemen ; the names of the grantees, and the number of acres allotted to each, are given by Dr. Bond in the first appendix to his Il/stoiy of IFateiiown.

Passage source: History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts : Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County, published 1880.

In the files of the County Court, is a schedule dated May 10, 1642, containing a list of names of persons to whom ninety-two farms, containing 7,674 acres, were allotted, and mention is made of " farms laid out formerly." The names of the committee do not appear on this schedule, but they do appear, with some half-dozen others, in connection with a range of lots on the south side of the highway. " The first lot in the range, adjoining the Sudbury Line, was that of Bryan Pendleton, by him sold to Peter Noyes, and very early purcJiased by George Munning." Adjoining this on the east were tlie lots of Daniel Pattrick, Simon Eire, Jolm Stowers, Abraham Browne, Jolm Whitney, Edward How, Jeremiah A'orcross, and Thomas Mayhew, who thus appear to have been the earliest proprietors of lands in Weston. The allotment committee seem to have provided farms for themselves and a few friends in advance of the general allotment of May, 1643.

Passage source: History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts : Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County, published 1880.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Weston Town - it names this place 58 more 58 times.

Fires near this place

82 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Weston between 1995 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Debris and open burning	23
Recreation and ceremony	13
Arson/incendiarism	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	1
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	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
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WELLESLEY
22 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WELLESLEY
2 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WELLESLEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,033 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,033 specimens collected within 10 miles of Weston between 1898 and 1975: 1,147 Animalia, 476 Plantae, 373 Fungi, 16 Protozoa, 10 Bacteria, 9 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & M. D. Feigley 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
Actaea pachypoda Elliott	1898	Ernest Charles Smith
Aglaospora profusa (Fr.) De Not.	1898	Collector unspecified
Antennaria howellii subsp. canadensis (Greene) R.J.Bayer	1898	Williams, E.F.
Antennaria parlinii subsp. fallax (Greene) R.J.Bayer & Stebbins	1898	not recorded
Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Hook.	1898	not recorded
Acer carpinifolium Siebold & Zucc.	1900	A. K. Harrison	Harvard Botanic Garden, Cambridge.
Acer palmatum var. dissectum (Thunb.) Miq.	1900	A. K. Harrison	Harvard Botanic Garden, Cambridge.
Agaricus brunnescens Peck	1900	Morris, G. E.	Waltham
Alnus serrulata (Aiton) Willd.	1900	J. Murdoch, Jr.	West Roxbury
Araiospora pulchra Thaxt.	1900	Thaxter, Roland	Stony Brook, Mass. [Massachusetts]
Boletus auriporus Peck	1900	G. E. Morris

All 2,033 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Weston: 9 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Massachusetts Broken Stone Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Weston Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Arthur Scofield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Burton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hi-Way Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pepperell Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Stonebridge Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Town of Natick	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Town of Wayland	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Town of Wellesley	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Middlesex County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weston in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	$25,000	A microburst with winds estimated near 65 mph caused damage in Weston (as well as Waltham and Wellesley). In Weston, multiple large trees and wires were down on Meadowbrook Road. Three large 2-foot oak trees were downed on Summer Street. Large branches were down on North Avenue, Pine Street, and South Street. A big tree was down on Rolling Lane. A 10-inch diameter tree was down on Doublet Hill Road. Two power poles were broken and Eversource, the utility company, was there all night.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	$20,000	A tree was downed onto a house on Cliff Road.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	$10,000	A microburst with winds of approximately 65 mph caused damage in Waltham (as well as Weston and Wellesley). In Waltham, three trees were downed and leaning on a house on Florence Road, causing minor damage. A large tree was down on Lincoln Street. Tree branches were down on a house and deck on Keach Terrace. A tree fell onto a vehicle on Vernon Street. Numerous trees were down in the vicinity of Brandeis University.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	$5,000	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	$1,000	In Weston, there was a tree down blocking part of Weston St and a tree down blocking Luke Rd.
July 2019	Lightning	Weston	$1,000	Lightning caused a house fire at an unspecified location in Waltham.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	$1,000	In Waltham, trees were reported down on Colburn Street.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	$500	In Weston, a tree was down, blocking Route 20.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	$300	A tree was down near Newton St near Rt 30.
June 2020	Flood	Weston	-	In Waltham, a car was stuck in flooding on Second Avenue...no water inside the vehicle. At 440 PM EST (540 PM EDT), a portion of Route 128 Southbound at Route 20 was flooded and impassable. Six to twelve inches of water was observed on South Street at Charlesbank Way.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Weston	-	At 10:07 AM EST, Hamilton Road at Lake Hill in Waltham was flooded and impassable.
June 2012	Hail	Weston	-	Penny size hail fell on Route 128.
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	-	An early morning thunderstorm with unusually frequent cloud to ground lightning moved eastward across the western suburbs of Boston and then directly across the city. In Weston and Newton, several trees and power lines were knocked down by strong winds. Lightning strikes blew out transformers and knocked out power to an estimated 20,000 customers from Sudbury to Boston. Small hail was reported by the National Weather Service at Logan International Airport in Boston. The Boston Fire Department reported its busiest two hours on record as lightning strikes cut off power, triggered alarm systems and heavy rain flooded roads. Lightning detection systems recorded around 20 cloud to ground strikes per minute or around 1,200 strikes per hour, continuing for more than an hour.
May 1997	Hail	Weston	-	no account filed

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
Weston Station	0.6 miles	46
Kendal Green	1.4 miles	48
Hastings	1.6 miles	48
Tower Hill	1.9 miles	46
Silver Hill	2.0 miles	48
Cedarwood	2.2 miles	46
Prospectville	2.9 miles	48
Camp Mary Day	3.0 miles	46

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612025. 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.