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

Community Park, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Charlton town. It lies in ZIP code area 01507. It stands on South Fork Little River. The Survey maps it on the Webster quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Community Park within Worcester County

Then and now

1889 to 1989

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.

Topographic sheet of Community Park (historical), surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Community Park (historical), surveyed 1889

Topographic sheets covering this place

42 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

70 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Community Park (historical) between 2015 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning27
Recreation and ceremony13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 July 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresMassachusetts 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 633 shown

Museums hold 633 specimens collected within 10 miles of Community Park (historical) between 1850 and 1975: 295 Plantae, 255 Animalia, 77 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. R. Hodgdon; L. B. Smith, A. R. Hodgdon; F. L. Steele 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 Cladonia cornucopioides, not of this specimenCladonia cornucopioides F.Wilson1850J. L. RussellLeicester
A photograph of the species Adiantum pedatum, not of this specimenAdiantum pedatum L.1866Collector(s): Elizabeth Emerson Atwater; Preparator(s): Alex LorenzLeicester
A photograph of the species Athyrium filix-femina, not of this specimenAthyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth1866Collector(s): Elizabeth Emerson Atwater; Preparator(s): Alex LorenzLeicester
A photograph of the species Dennstaedtia punctilobula, not of this specimenDennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore1866Collector(s): Elizabeth Emerson Atwater; Preparator(s): Alex LorenzLeicester
A photograph of the species Coccyzus erythropthalmus, not of this specimenCoccyzus erythropthalmus (A.Wilson, 1811)1875Francois Hue
A photograph of the species Calypso bulbosa, not of this specimenCalypso bulbosa (L.) Oakes1878F.H. Hosford
A photograph of the species Uncinula salicis, not of this specimenUncinula salicis (DC.) G.Winter1880A.B. Seymour
Leucothoe racemosa (L.) A.Gray1895T. W. EdmondsonMillbury
Sitta carolinensis carolinensis Latham, 17901895VAN OSTRAND, H TMILLBURY
Spizella pusilla pusilla (A.Wilson, 1810)1895VAN OSTRAND, H TMILLBURY
Junco hyemalis hyemalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1896VAN OSTRAND, H TMILLBURY
Melospiza georgiana georgiana (Latham, 1790)1896VAN OSTRAND, H TMILLBURY

All 633 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 14 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Community Park (historical): 11 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Charlton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Highway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Old Webster Road PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oxford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oxford Quarry Plant #8Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ricciardi Asphalt CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Robbins Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Scavone Construction CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Scavone Construction CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Southbridge 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
Buffumville0.5 miles42
West Oxford1.4 miles42
Hodges Village1.4 miles42
South Charlton1.5 miles42
Grand View Estates1.8 miles42
Oxford2.3 miles43
Richardson Corners2.6 miles42
Camp Barton2.8 miles42

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 617301. 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.