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

Dudleyville, Massachusetts

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Leverett town. It lies in ZIP code area 01054. It stands on Morse Hill. The Survey maps it on the Shutesbury quadrangle.

Dudleyville within Franklin County

Then and now

1887 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dudleyville, surveyed 1990

Topographic sheet of Dudleyville, surveyed 1887

Compare 1887 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

35 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

10 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Dudleyville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 60 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 burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
25 June 2020	Natural	56 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	JOSHUA HILL FIRE
2 April 2006	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
17 April 2019	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 April 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
15 April 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 April 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 March 2017	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 Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 8,927 shown

Museums hold 8,927 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dudleyville between 1781 and 1975: 3,977 Animalia, 2,551 Plantae, 2,080 Fungi, 126 Chromista, 120 Unrecorded, 73 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A V Osmun, A. Allen, A. B. Seymour 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
Cercospora violae Sacc.	1895	Ralph E. Smith	Hothouse, Mass. Agr. College, Amherst
Septoria petroselini Desm.	1895	R. E. Smith	Hothouse, Mass. Agr. College
Bombus bimaculatus Cresson, 1863	1899	[Not Stated]	Hatch Experiment Station
Carex argyrantha Tuck. ex Dewey	1781	H. G. Jesup	Amherst in Hampshire Co., and Leverett in Franklin Co., Massachusetts. [Inferred counties from precise loc.]
Carex foenea Willd.	1781	H. G. Jesup	And Leverett
Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle	1810	J.E. Humphrey
Ptilidium pulcherrimum (Weber) Hampe	1822	Ebenezer Emmons
Ranunculus ambigens S.Watson	1831	S. Shurtleff
Dactylis glomerata L.	1839	S J Ewer
Solidago arguta Aiton	1841	Collector(s): Henry Holmes Babcock, Henry Griswold Jesup	Amherst
Phlebiella vaga (Fr.) P.Karst.	1845	Illegible collector name
Elodea nuttallii (Planch.) H.St.John	1847	H. G. Jesup

All 8,927 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Dudleyville: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Copper, Barium-Barite, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver. 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
Leverett Lead Mines	Lead, Copper, Barium-Barite, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer	Barite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Leverett Lead Mines	Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer
Leverett Prospects	Barium-Barite, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Leverett Lead Mine	Lead, Copper	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms nearby

1 since 2021

The National Weather Service names Dudleyville in 1 storm report between 2021 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Dudleyville	$500	In Shutesbury, a tree was down on Montague Rd.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Locks Village	1.2 miles	32
Moores Corner	1.3 miles	35
Shutesbury	2.8 miles	35
North Leverett	2.9 miles	32
East Leverett	3.6 miles	35
Leverett	3.7 miles	42
South Wendell	3.8 miles	32
Cooleyville	4.2 miles	32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609142. 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.