populated place · official layer

West Roxbury

A populated place entered on the federal register of geographic names as feature 612406 in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The name is the one the United States Board on Geographic Names has recorded; what the place is called locally is filed separately as an attested claim.

Place

official layer

The official layer: what an authority with the power to draw a boundary has recorded. This record carries NO BOUNDARY — the authority entered a name, and the archive holds that and says so rather than implying an extent nobody drew.

Filed by this archive as

locale

Authority

United States Board on Geographic Names

Within

Boston

GNIS feature

612406

Questions this record answers

Each answer is composed only from fields this record carries, and names the attestation for what it says. A question the record cannot answer from its own attested content is not asked here. Where a boundary is described as official it was promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it and is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer; where it is described as vernacular it is held by attestation alone and amends no official boundary.

This record, elsewhere

Identities the archive asserts, each named with the method that produced it. Candidates the archive did not assert here are held in the reconciliation ledger and are shown below, under candidates the archive declined, and in the reconciliation ledger. Each method is stated in full — the procedure, the value it was compared against, and the date it was decided — in this record's machine rendering.

• USGS Geographic Names Information System — 612406Method: gnis-feature-id-recorded-at-accession · Matched against: USGS GNIS domestic feature id 612406 · Decided 3 September 2026

Candidates the archive declined

Identities that were considered and not asserted. They are published here rather than merely filed, because a decision nobody can see is indistinguishable from never having looked. A candidate is DECLINED where the archive weighed it and refused it, and HELD where the archive asserts it nowhere on this record — most often because it is asserted on the archive's principal record for the same place, and asserting it twice would instruct a consumer to merge two records the archive deliberately keeps apart. Each row states which, in its own words. A wrong sameAs is worse than none. Every verdict is in the reconciliation ledger.

• Wikidata — Q2516663 · held — not asserted hereMatched against: wdt:P590 = 612406 on Q2516663 (West Roxbury)Why: Held, not asserted: 2 records of this archive answer to this identifier, and it is asserted on /place/west-roxbury — the archive's principal record for the place, which holds a boundary where this one holds a point or a less specific extent. This record is tied to it by an internal same_as relation. Asserting the identifier here as well would instruct a consumer to merge two records the archive deliberately keeps apart.Method: wikidata-p590-exact-identifier-join · Decided 13 September 2026
• English Wikipedia — West_Roxbury · held — not asserted hereMatched against: schema:about Q2516663 ; schema:isPartOf en.wikipediaWhy: Held, not asserted: 2 records of this archive answer to this identifier, and it is asserted on /place/west-roxbury — the archive's principal record for the place, which holds a boundary where this one holds a point or a less specific extent. This record is tied to it by an internal same_as relation. Asserting the identifier here as well would instruct a consumer to merge two records the archive deliberately keeps apart.Method: wikidata-sitelink · Decided 13 September 2026

Related records

• same as — West Roxbury

Identity

Identifier

urn:lemay:boston:entity:west-roxbury-4

Canonical URL

https://boston.fyi/place/west-roxbury-4

As JSON

https://boston.fyi/place/west-roxbury-4.json

Version

1 · last changed 2 September 2026