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.
Then and now
1889 to 1989The 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.


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.
Rock Castle Schoollisted 1989 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
19 surveys from 43 printed 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.
- 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
In the county-history sources
10,167 words on this townshipHistory 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.
Fires near this place
77 since 2007Regional 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 burning | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 19 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Connecticut Division of Forestry | 1175 RIVERSIDE DRIVE |
| 8 August 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 6 August 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 4 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 22 August 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 9 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 28 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Connecticut Division of Forestry | 1405 RIVERSIDE DR, THOMPSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 467 shownRegional 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 | 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 467 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 19 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Haven Traprock Co. Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Charlton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Highway Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Janeczek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Janeczek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Leo Construction Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Minarik Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Minarik Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Old Webster Road Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ricciardi Asphalt Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Webster | 1.1 miles | 42 | |
| Sunnyside | 1.2 miles | 42 | |
| Merino Village (historical) | 1.5 miles | 42 | |
| Merino Village | 1.6 miles | 42 | |
| Wawela Park | 1.9 miles | 43 | |
| Fennerville | 1.9 miles | 42 | |
| Chaseville | 2.2 miles | 42 | |
| Loveland | 2.4 miles | 43 |
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.




























