Colonial Park, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1889 1989

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.

• 1889 USGS Webster quadrangle1:62500
• 1892 USGS Webster quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1908 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1921 USGS Webster quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000
• 1946 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:24000
• 1969 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1969 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:25000
• 1975 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:25000
• 1982 USGS Webster quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, published 1889 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Colonial Park between 1993 and 2020, burning about 279 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Perryville
• Lakeview Heights
• Loveland
• Wawela Park
• Chaseville
• Dudley

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 358 specimens collected within 10 miles of Colonial Park between 1857 and 1974: 187 Animalia, 120 Plantae, 37 Fungi, 10 Protozoa, 4 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. S. Pease, Agassiz 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Chilonectria coryli (Fuckel) Ellis & Everh.	1896	Henderson
	Coryneum pulvinatum Kunze	1897	D. Murray
	Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825	1857	Weinland, David Friedrich
	Bufo americanus Holbrook, 1836	1859	not recorded
	Pseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)	1859	Weinland, David Friedrich
	Rana pipiens Schreber, 1782	1859	Weinland, David Friedrich
	Rana sylvatica LeConte, 1825	1859	Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe
	Notophthalmus viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)	1860	Agassiz
	Clemmys insculpta Fitzinger, 1835	1864	Salmin
	Clemmys guttata (Schneider, 1792)	1869	Salmin
	Coccyzus erythropthalmus (A.Wilson, 1811)	1875	Francois Hue
	Sterna hirundo hirundo Linnaeus, 1758	1892	Babbitt, J P	Massachusetts

All 358 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Colonial Park: 11 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Every working recorded in Worcester County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 610613. 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.