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

Baldwinville, Massachusetts

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Templeton town. It lies in ZIP code area 01436. It stands on Trout Brook. The Survey maps it on the Templeton quadrangle. 2,117 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 889 feet above sea level.

Baldwinville within Worcester County

Population over time

2 figures

Baldwinville grew from 2,028 to 2,117 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	2,028
2020	2,117	+89 (+4%)

Then and now

1887 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Baldwinville, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Baldwinville, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

33 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

29 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Baldwinville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 19 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
Debris and open burning	20
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
28 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 July 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 July 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 July 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 June 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
27 June 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 June 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 680 shown

Museums hold 680 specimens collected within 10 miles of Baldwinville between 1856 and 1975: 364 Plantae, 168 Fungi, 139 Animalia, 6 Unrecorded, 3 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A., A. F. Newton, A. J. Stone 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
Osmunda regalis L.	1900	Bates, J.A.	Royalston.
Pyxine sorediata (Ach.) Mont.	1856	Charles C. Frost
Carex maritima Gunnerus	1870	J. W. Congdon	Wellville
Veronica L.	1871	not recorded
Drosera rotundifolia L.	1882	not recorded
Linnaea borealis subsp. longiflora (Torrey) Hultén	1882	not recorded
Moneses uniflora (L.) A.Gray	1882	M. A. M.	Winchendon
Polygala paucifolia Willd.	1882	M. A. M.
Utricularia vulgaris subsp. macrorhiza (Leconte) Clausen	1886	M., K. M.
Peltandra virginica (L.) Schott	1892	A.
Rosa rubiginosa L.	1892	not recorded
Carex scoparia Schkuhr ex Willd.	1896	W. Deane

All 680 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Baldwinville: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica. 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
South Royalston Mica Mine	Mica	Occurrence	Mica
South Royalston Mica Mine	Mica	Occurrence
City of Gardner	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Dines Roger Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Highway Pit & Gardner Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Otter River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sibley Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Templeton Hwy Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Templeton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Templeton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Worcester County

Storms nearby

3 since 2014

The National Weather Service names Baldwinville in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Baldwinville	$5,000	A tree and wires on River Road were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2018	Lightning	Baldwinville	$2,000	At 5:42 PM EST, lightning struck a transformer on Royalston Road near Baldwinville and caused a power outage.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Baldwinville	$1,400	In Templeton, a tree and wires were down on Bridge Street, near Elm Street. Also, a large branch and wires were down on Highland Avenue. Report relayed by amateur radio.

Every storm recorded in Worcester 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
Otter River	1.5 miles	33
Parkers Station	3.0 miles	36
Templeton Station	3.4 miles	33
Brooks Village	3.6 miles	33
Templeton	3.7 miles	33
East Templeton	3.7 miles	33
Phillipston Four Corners	4.0 miles	32
Winchendon Center	4.1 miles	36

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.

Wikipedia article on Baldwinville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q25564	The 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 609877. 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.