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East Village, Massachusetts

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Webster town. It lies in ZIP code area 01570. It stands on Mine Brook. The Survey maps it on the Oxford quadrangle.

East Village 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 East Village, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of East Village, surveyed 1889

On record in East Village

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

19 surveys from 43 printed 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.

In the county-history sources

10,167 words on this township

History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, published 1889 names this settlement in its chapter on Webster Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

After the death of Mr. Samuel Slater, in 1835, the business was carried on by George B. Slater and Horatio N. Slater until the death of the former, in 1843, after which date Mr. Horatio N. Slater conducted the business until his death, in August, 1888, and was succeeded by his son, Horatio N. Slater, who is the present manager. The three establishments belonging to the concern are the H. N. Slater Manufacturing Company at the North Village, incorporated in 1836, manufacturing cotton dress-goods, checks, lawns, silesias, jaconets, etc. ; the H. N. Slater Manufacturing Company at the East Village, employed in the finishing of cambrics, silesias, cotton dress-goods, lawns, etc., and the Slater Woolen Company at the East Village, incorporated in 1866, manufacturing broadcloths, flannels, tricots and doeskins. In the three about fifteen hundred hands are employed. The cotton and woolen factories are located on French River and the finishing factory on the outlet from the pond. The water with which the inhabitants of the town and the Fire Department are supplied is furnished from a reservoir belonging to one of these establishments, through pipes of the town water-works, first laid in 1867, for which an annual rental is paid by the town.

Passage source: History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, published 1889.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Webster Town.

Fires near this place

77 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of East Village between 2007 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony14
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2

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
19 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresConnecticut Division of Forestry1175 RIVERSIDE DRIVE
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
4 August 2020Debris and open burningunder 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
28 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConnecticut Division of Forestry1405 RIVERSIDE DR, THOMPSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 467 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 467 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Village between 1857 and 1974: 220 Animalia, 176 Plantae, 56 Fungi, 10 Protozoa, 4 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Chilonectria coryli (Fuckel) Ellis & Everh.Chilonectria coryli (Fuckel) Ellis & Everh.1896Henderson
Specimen of Coryneum pulvinatum KunzeCoryneum pulvinatum Kunze1897D. Murray
A photograph of the species Hyla versicolor, not of this specimenHyla versicolor LeConte, 18251857Weinland, David Friedrich
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361859not recorded
A photograph of the species Pseudacris crucifer, not of this specimenPseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)1859Weinland, David Friedrich
A photograph of the species Rana pipiens, not of this specimenRana pipiens Schreber, 17821859Weinland, David Friedrich
A photograph of the species Rana sylvatica, not of this specimenRana sylvatica LeConte, 18251859Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe
A photograph of the species Notophthalmus viridescens, not of this specimenNotophthalmus viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)1860Agassiz
Clemmys insculpta Fitzinger, 18351864Salmin
A photograph of the species Clemmys guttata, not of this specimenClemmys guttata (Schneider, 1792)1869Salmin
A photograph of the species Coccyzus erythropthalmus, not of this specimenCoccyzus erythropthalmus (A.Wilson, 1811)1875Francois Hue
Sterna hirundo hirundo Linnaeus, 17581892Babbitt, J PMassachusetts

All 467 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of East Village: 17 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
New Haven Traprock Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Charlton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Highway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Janeczek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Janeczek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Leo Construction CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Minarik PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Minarik PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Old Webster Road PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ricciardi Asphalt CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

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
Webster1.1 miles42
Sunnyside1.2 miles42
Merino Village (historical)1.5 miles42
Merino Village1.6 miles42
Wawela Park1.9 miles43
Fennerville1.9 miles42
Chaseville2.2 miles42
Loveland2.4 miles43

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 610625. 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.