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

Wrentham, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Wrentham town. It lies in ZIP code area 02093. It stands on Knuckup Hill. The Survey maps it on the Wrentham quadrangle.

Wrentham within Norfolk County

Then and now

1887 to 1989

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.

Topographic sheet of Wrentham, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Wrentham, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

39 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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

David Fisher House, Wrentham, Norfolk County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Guild-Kollock House, Wrentham, Norfolk County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

164 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Wrentham between 2007 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. None 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 ceremony	64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	55
Smoking	24
Debris and open burning	15
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
3 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FOXBORO
27 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE
27 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE
26 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE
25 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE
23 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE
22 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	PLAINVILLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,377 shown

Museums hold 1,377 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wrentham between 1843 and 1975: 633 Fungi, 346 Plantae, 275 Animalia, 87 Protozoa, 16 Chromista, 15 Unrecorded, 5 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Herz, 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Polygala paucifolia Willd.	1843	Shore	Woonsocket
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.
Carex echinata var. echinata	1876	W. P. Rich

All 1,377 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 27 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Wrentham: 16 past producers, 10 producers, 1 unknown. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. 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
Glines & Rhodes Refin.--Plainville	Gold, PGE, Silver	Past Producer
Masslite Pit	Clay, Stone	Producer
Plainville	Bloating Material	Producer	Sedimentary
Sheldonville Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Bates Bros Quarry	Granite	Producer
Five Star Mineral and Mining Co	Gold	Past Producer
Sheldonville Mine	Silver, Gold	Past Producer
Simeone Stone Corporation	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Masslite	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Plainville Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms nearby

20 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Wrentham in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 lightning, 3 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2010	Lightning	Wrentham	1 hurt, $20,000	A deli on Shear Street was struck by lightning. The resulting fire gutted the second floor apartment and one firefighter was injured while fighting the fire.
July 2006	Lightning	Wrentham	$50,000	no account filed
June 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Wrentham	$20,000	The tornado touched down just east of Lake Archer where tree top damage was observed. It then continued into the middle of downtown Wrentham, crossing the town common and uprooting an 80 foot tall maple tree. several trees were uprooted and large limbs were downed in the town cemetery east of the common. The tornado then lifted just east of the cemetery. No injuries were reported and many people interviewed received a Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) on their cell phones when the warning was issued and took shelter.
July 1998	Lightning	Wrentham	$20,000	no account filed
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Wrentham	$10,000	Trees and wires on Hancock Streer were downed by thunderstorm winds.
February 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Wrentham	$5,000	A tree in Wrentham was downed by thunderstorm winds, blocking the road.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Wrentham	$5,000	no account filed
June 2020	Flood	Wrentham	$4,000	In Wrentham, there was flooding of a finished basement on Martin Lane.
November 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Wrentham	$500	In Wrentham, a tree was down on Shears Street.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Wrentham	$500	An eight inch diameter tree limb was downed by thunderstorm winds onto Route 121.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Wrentham	-	In Wrentham, a mesonet station gusted to 63 mph.
September 2023	Flood	Wrentham	-	In Wrentham, David Brown Way was closed due to flooding.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	West Wrentham	-	In Wrentham at 601 PM EDT, a mesonet site measured a wind gust to 58 mph.
July 2017	Flood	Wrentham	-	At 1255 PM EST, Thurston Street in Wrentham was closed due to street flooding. At 119 PM EST, one lane of East Street was closed due to street flooding.
June 2015	Hail	Wrentham	-	Quarter size hail fell near the Wrentham Fire Department.
July 2009	Hail	Wrentham	-	no account filed
September 2002	Heavy Rain	Wrentham	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Wrentham	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Wrentham	-	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Wrentham	-	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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wampum Corner	1.5 miles	39
Wampum Rock	1.8 miles	39
Pondville	2.6 miles	39
Acorn Terrace	3.0 miles	39
West Foxboro	3.1 miles	39
Shepardville	3.2 miles	39
City Mills	3.2 miles	39
Norfolk	3.6 miles	39

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612136. 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.