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Burrage Corner, Massachusetts

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Petersham town. It lies in ZIP code area 01366. It stands on Nelson Brook. The Survey maps it on the Athol quadrangle.

Burrage Corner within Worcester County

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 Burrage Corner, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Burrage Corner, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

32 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

17 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Burrage Corner between 2015 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. 1 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 August 2020Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 May 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,650 shown

Museums hold 1,650 specimens collected within 10 miles of Burrage Corner between 1839 and 1975: 941 Animalia, 443 Fungi, 242 Plantae, 15 Unrecorded, 9 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. V. Schott, A. Melander, A. Melander & A. Melander 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
A photograph of the species Bartramia pomiformis, not of this specimenBartramia pomiformis Hedw.1839unknownBarre
A photograph of the species Carex gracillima, not of this specimenCarex gracillima Schwein.1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Carex intumescens, not of this specimenCarex intumescens Rudge1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Carex lacustris, not of this specimenCarex lacustris Willd.1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Carex stipata, not of this specimenCarex stipata Muhl. ex Willd.1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Cirsium arvense, not of this specimenCirsium arvense (L.) Scop.1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Cypripedium acaule, not of this specimenCypripedium acaule Aiton1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Solidago uliginosa, not of this specimenSolidago uliginosa Nutt.1896G. T. HastingsTully. Tully Lake.
A photograph of the species Juncus nodosus, not of this specimenJuncus nodosus L.1898G. T. HastingsTully Lake.
Polyporus cinnabarinus (Jacq.) Fr.1927Spaulding P.Petersham
unnamed1928Spaulding P.; Hansbrough J. R.Petersham
Botrytis P.Micheli, 17291928Perley SpauldingPetersham

All 1,650 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Burrage Corner: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Jagger MineIronOccurrence1845
Clarks PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
South Athol2.1 miles32
Petersham3.0 miles31
Eaglesville3.2 miles32
The Street3.7 miles32
Partridgeville4.0 miles32
Athol5.2 miles32
Phillipston5.2 miles32
North Dana (historical)5.3 miles32

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 Q122567315The 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 616987. 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.