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

Winslows, Massachusetts

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Norwood town. It lies in ZIP code area 02062. It stands on Hawes Brook. The Survey maps it on the Norwood quadrangle.

Winslows 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 Winslows, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Winslows, 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

173 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Winslows between 2015 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 ceremony62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Smoking41
Debris and open burning12
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlDOVER
6 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSHARON
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWESTWOOD
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlDEDHAM
26 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSHARON
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMEDFIELD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 10,170 shown

Museums hold 10,170 specimens collected within 10 miles of Winslows between 1832 and 1975: 3,948 Animalia, 3,663 Plantae, 2,336 Fungi, 149 Protozoa, 35 Unrecorded, 34 Chromista, 5 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Cheever, 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Hieracium venosum L.Hieracium venosum L.1900E. F. WilliamsBlue Hills Reservation
Specimen of Hypoprepia fucosa Hübner, 1831Hypoprepia fucosa Hübner, 18311900not recordedSherborn
Specimen of Lysimachia × producta (A.Gray) FernaldLysimachia × producta (A.Gray) Fernald1900A. P. Chute
A photograph of the species Bartramia pomiformis, not of this specimenBartramia pomiformis Hedw.1832C. E. Cummings
A photograph of the species Cornus sericea, not of this specimenCornus sericea subsp. sericea1832Nathaniel T. KidderMilton, Brook Road
A photograph of the species Galium verum, not of this specimenGalium verum L.1846Kupell
A photograph of the species Calycanthus L., not of this specimenCalycanthus L.1850not recordedHort. Cantab. [presumably cultivated Hortus Cantabridgiensis, Botanical Garden Harvard University] e Georgia.
A photograph of the species Malvastrum A.Gray, not of this specimenMalvastrum A.Gray1850not recordedHort. Cantab. [=Hortus Cantabridgiensis, Botanical Garden Harvard University].
A photograph of the species Boerhavia Vaill., not of this specimenBoerhavia Vaill. ex L.1852not recordedHort. Cantab. [Presumably cultivated Hortus Cantabridgiensis, Botanical Garden Harvard University].
A photograph of the species Amaranthus L., not of this specimenAmaranthus L.1853not recordedHort. Cantab. [=Cultivated Hortus Cantabridgiensis, Botanical Garden Harvard University].
A photograph of the species Anoda Cav., not of this specimenAnoda Cav.1853not recordedHort. Cantab. [=Hortus Cantabridgiensis, Botanical Garden Harvard University].
A photograph of the species Carex bullata, not of this specimenCarex bullata Schkuhr1853Collector unknownHoughtons Pond.

All 10,170 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 Winslows: 5 past producers, 5 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Granite, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hopkinton QuarryGraniteProducer
Walpole QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Iron Mountain MineIronPast Producer
Thorn Mountain ProspectIronOccurrence
Canton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Canton Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dedham Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dedham Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Farnham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Robbins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms nearby

12 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Winslows in 12 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2009LightningWinslows$100,000Lightning struck a house on Sturtevant Avenue setting it on fire. The triple decker house was divided into 5 apartments, all of which had to be evacuated and residents relocated.
August 2012LightningWinslows$30,000Two houses were struck by lightning in Norwood. One on Lincoln Street, the other on Hawthorne Street. Minor damage was sustained by both.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWinslows$3,000The Automated Surface Observing System at Norwood Memorial Airport (KOWD) recorded a wind gust of 61 mph. Wires at the intersection of Route 1 and Dean Street were downed by these thunderstorm winds.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWinslows$1,000In Westwood, a large tree was down on Oak Street.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindWinslows$1,000Trees near the Route 1 auto mile were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2024HailWinslows-In Walpole 1 inch hail was reported.
August 2024HailWinslows-In Norwood, 1 inch hail was reported.
August 2024HailWinslows-In Norwood, 1 inch hail was reported.
June 2020HailWinslows-Media reported quarter size hail in Norwood.
September 2018Flash FloodWinslows-At 11:38 AM EST, U.S. Route 1 at Pleasant Street in Norwood was closed due to flooding.
May 2009HailWinslows-no account filed
May 2009HailWinslows-no account filed

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
East Walpole0.6 miles41
Plimptonville1.6 miles41
Norwood1.7 miles41
Walpole Heights2.1 miles41
Canton Junction2.6 miles41
Walpole2.9 miles41
Westwood3.1 miles41
Ellis3.1 miles41

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 Q122556625The 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 617865. 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.