Eaglesville, Massachusetts
32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Athol town. It lies in ZIP code area 01331. It stands on Ellinwood Brook. The Survey maps it on the Orange quadrangle.
Then and now
1887 to 1990The 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 sheets covering this place
32 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1887 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
- 1889 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
- 1937 USGS Orange quadrangle1:24000
- 1941 USGS Orange quadrangle1:31680
- 1941 USGS Orange quadrangle1:31680
- 1941 USGS Orange quadrangle1:31680
- 1942 USGS Keene quadrangle1:125000
- 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Orange quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Orange quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Orange quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Orange quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Orange quadrangle1:25000
- 1977 USGS Orange quadrangle1:25000
- 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Orange quadrangle1:25000
- 1990 USGS Orange quadrangle1:25000
Fires nearby
29 since 2004The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Eaglesville between 2004 and 2020, burning about 171 acres in total. 1 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 burning | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 23 August 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 14 June 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 7 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | 46 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 4 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 4 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 3 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 22 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,385 shownMuseums hold 1,385 specimens collected within 10 miles of Eaglesville between 1856 and 1975: 734 Animalia, 429 Fungi, 198 Plantae, 15 Unrecorded, 9 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Melander, A. Melander & A. Melander, A. P. Baker 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Osmunda regalis L. | 1900 | Bates, J.A. | Royalston. |
![]() | Pyxine sorediata (Ach.) Mont. | 1856 | Charles C. Frost | |
![]() | Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.Lawson | 1876 | Harris, M.E. | Mount Loby |
![]() | Hemitrichia vesparia (Batsch) T.Macbr., 1899 | 1882 | not recorded | Petersham |
![]() | Solidago uliginosa Nutt. | 1896 | G. T. Hastings | Tully. Tully Lake. |
![]() | Botrychium dissectum Spreng. | 1898 | not recorded | |
![]() | Juncus nodosus L. | 1898 | G. T. Hastings | Tully Lake. |
![]() | Antennaria howellii subsp. canadensis (Greene) R.J.Bayer | 1899 | Bates, J.A. | |
![]() | Bulbostylis capillaris (L.) Kunth ex C.B.Clarke | 1899 | J. A. Bates | |
![]() | Carex normalis Mack. | 1899 | not recorded | |
![]() | Carex pallescens L. | 1899 | J. A. Bates | |
![]() | Carex radiata (Wahlenb.) Small | 1899 | J. A. Bates |
All 1,385 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
2 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Eaglesville: 1 past producer, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jagger Mine | Iron | Occurrence | 1845 | |
| Town Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Athol | 1.4 miles | 32 | |
| Partridgeville | 1.7 miles | 32 | |
| Burrage Corner | 3.2 miles | 32 | |
| The Street | 3.2 miles | 32 | |
| Athol | 3.9 miles | 32 | |
| Pinedale | 4.7 miles | 32 | |
| Fryeville | 5.9 miles | 36 | |
| Petersham | 6.2 miles | 31 |
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 Q122556589 | The 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 617615. 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.











































