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Camp Breezy Meadow, Massachusetts

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Medway town. It lies in ZIP code area 02053. The Survey maps it on the Holliston quadrangle.

Camp Breezy Meadow 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 Camp Breezy Meadow, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Camp Breezy Meadow, surveyed 1887

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

98 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Camp Breezy Meadow between 2015 and 2020, burning about 134 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 24 were 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 burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism24
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Fireworks1

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
24 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
11 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMEDWAY
10 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMEDWAY
10 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMEDWAY
9 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMEDFIELD
3 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
26 August 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 4,754 shown

Museums hold 4,754 specimens collected within 10 miles of Camp Breezy Meadow between 1849 and 1975: 3,752 Animalia, 731 Plantae, 245 Fungi, 14 Unrecorded, 11 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Herz, A. B. Seymour, A. D. Hastings 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 Hypoprepia fucosa Hübner, 1831Hypoprepia fucosa Hübner, 18311900not recordedSherborn
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium acuminatum, not of this specimenDichanthelium acuminatum var. acuminatum1849Ernest Charles SmithFramingham.
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1852S. BairdFramingham, Massachusetts.
A photograph of the species Boleosoma fusiforme, not of this specimenBoleosoma fusiforme Girard, 18541852S. BairdFramingham, Massachusetts.
A photograph of the species Grammia arge, not of this specimenGrammia arge Drury, 17731867not recordedSherborn
A photograph of the species Polygonum coccineum, not of this specimenPolygonum coccineum Muhl. ex Willd.1869Morong, T.Natick
A photograph of the species Polytrichum piliferum, not of this specimenPolytrichum piliferum Hedw.1870not recordedSouth Framingham
A photograph of the species Utricularia gibba, not of this specimenUtricularia gibba L.1871W. Edwards
A photograph of the species Operophtera bruceata, not of this specimenOperophtera bruceata (Hulst, 1886)1873not recordedSherborn
A photograph of the species Gymnocarpium dryopteris, not of this specimenGymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman1874not recorded
A photograph of the species Nitella tenuissima, not of this specimenNitella tenuissima (Desv.) Kütz.1874Piper, S. M.
Thelypteris phegopteris (L.) Sloss.1874not recorded

All 4,754 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 25 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Camp Breezy Meadow: 18 past producers, 5 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Ashland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Holliston PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Castellucci and SonsGranitePast ProducerGranite
Milford Pink Granite QuarryGranitePast Producer
Simeone Stone CorpGranitePast ProducerGranite
Trimount Bituminous ProdGranitePast ProducerGranite
Bird PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Finn Brothers Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Franklin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Garbarino Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working 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
West Medway2.4 miles41
Caryville2.8 miles41
Medway3.3 miles41
North Bellingham3.7 miles44
Valley View3.9 miles44
Westview4.3 miles44
Happy Hills4.3 miles44
Millis4.5 miles43

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 Q122598424The 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 611659. 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.