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

Westwood, Massachusetts

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Westwood town. It lies in ZIP code area 02090. It stands on Satans Kingdom. The Survey maps it on the Norwood quadrangle.

Westwood 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 Westwood, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Westwood, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

41 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

162 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Westwood between 2015 and 2020, burning about 94 acres in total. None 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	66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	46
Smoking	34
Debris and open burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	DOVER
6 September 2020	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	WESTWOOD
3 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	DEDHAM
22 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
2 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	DEDHAM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 13,094 shown

Museums hold 13,094 specimens collected within 10 miles of Westwood between 1815 and 1975: 4,780 Animalia, 4,523 Plantae, 3,396 Fungi, 227 Protozoa, 95 Chromista, 49 Unrecorded, 24 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Araiospora pulchra Thaxt.	1900	R. Thaxter	Stony Brook
Hieracium venosum L.	1900	E. F. Williams	Blue Hills Reservation
Hypoprepia fucosa Hübner, 1831	1900	not recorded	Sherborn
Corydalis Vent.	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Worcester turnpike, 6 miles from Boston.
Corylus L.	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Worcester Turnpike, 7 miles from Boston.
Nuphar Sm.	1815	Boott, J.W.	Worcester Turnpike 6 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.]
Bartramia pomiformis Hedw.	1832	C. E. Cummings
Cornus sericea subsp. sericea	1832	Nathaniel T. Kidder	Milton, Brook Road
Mentha spicata L.	1834	H. Gillman	Brookline.

All 13,094 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Westwood: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Granite. 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
Hopkinton Quarry	Granite	Producer
Needham Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Walpole Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Greendale Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Robbins Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Town of Needham	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms nearby

9 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Westwood in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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 1997	Lightning	Westwood	$100,000	no account filed
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Westwood	$15,000	Electrical lines on Church Street were downed by thunderstorm winds.
February 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Westwood	$5,000	Wires on Grove Street in Westwood were downed by thunderstorm winds.
March 2007	Flood	Westwood	$5,000	Significant urban flooding blocked a portion of Route 1 in Westwood. In Walpole, a nearby stream flooded Washington Street near the middle school, while Pickerel Brook near Bird Park came out of its banks.
February 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Westwood	$2,000	A lamp post in Westwood was downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Westwood	$1,000	Wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Westwood	$500	In Westwood, a tree was down on High Street (Route 109) at Dover Road.
May 2009	Flood	Westwood	-	Multiple streets were flooded with a foot to eighteen inches of water, rendering them impassable, including Pine Lane in Westwood.
May 2009	Hail	Westwood	-	Penny sized hail mixed in with smaller hail fell in northeastern Westwood.

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
Ellis	1.8 miles	41
Norwood	1.9 miles	41
Islington	2.0 miles	41
Winslows	3.1 miles	41
Greenlodge	3.5 miles	41
Dedham	3.6 miles	41
East Walpole	3.7 miles	41
Endicott	3.7 miles	41

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612548. 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.