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

Fryeville, Massachusetts

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Athol town. It lies in ZIP code area 01331. It stands on East Branch Tully River. The Survey maps it on the Royalston quadrangle.

Fryeville within Worcester County

Then and now

1887 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fryeville, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Fryeville, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

36 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

28 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Fryeville between 2004 and 2020, burning about 176 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
28 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
10 August 2020Fireworks1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlTULLY MT FIRE
16 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
14 June 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
14 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 May 2015Debris and open burning46 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 1,449 shown

Museums hold 1,449 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fryeville between 1856 and 1975: 713 Animalia, 431 Fungi, 282 Plantae, 14 Unrecorded, 9 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A., A. Melander, A. Melander & A. Melander 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 Osmunda regalis L.Osmunda regalis L.1900Bates, J.A.Royalston.
A photograph of the species Pyxine sorediata, not of this specimenPyxine sorediata (Ach.) Mont.1856Charles C. Frost
A photograph of the species Veronica L., not of this specimenVeronica L.1871not recorded
A photograph of the species Drosera rotundifolia, not of this specimenDrosera rotundifolia L.1882not recorded
A photograph of the species Hemitrichia vesparia, not of this specimenHemitrichia vesparia (Batsch) T.Macbr., 18991882not recordedPetersham
A photograph of the species Linnaea borealis, not of this specimenLinnaea borealis subsp. longiflora (Torrey) Hultén1882not recorded
A photograph of the species Moneses uniflora, not of this specimenMoneses uniflora (L.) A.Gray1882M. A. M.Winchendon
A photograph of the species Polygala paucifolia, not of this specimenPolygala paucifolia Willd.1882M. A. M.
A photograph of the species Utricularia vulgaris, not of this specimenUtricularia vulgaris subsp. macrorhiza (Leconte) Clausen1886M., K. M.
A photograph of the species Peltandra virginica, not of this specimenPeltandra virginica (L.) Schott1892A.
Rosa rubiginosa L.1892not recorded
Carex scoparia Schkuhr ex Willd.1896W. Deane

All 1,449 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 16 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Fryeville: 7 occurrences, 4 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Mica, Talc-Soapstone, 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
Pegmatite QuarryMica, FeldsparPast Producer
Pegmetite QuarryMica, FeldsparProducerFeldspar, Mica
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Talc QuarryTalc-SoapstoneProducerMetamorphic
Talc QuarryTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Pegmatite OccurrenceMicaOccurrenceMica
Pegmatite OccurrenceMicaOccurrence
South Royalston Mica MineMicaOccurrenceMica
South Royalston Mica MineMicaOccurrence
Johnson Iron MineIronPast 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
Pinedale1.2 miles32
Athol2.2 miles32
The Street3.7 miles32
Camp Caravan3.9 miles36
Royalston4.0 miles36
South Royalston4.1 miles36
Partridgeville4.1 miles32
West Royalston4.7 miles36

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 Q122554828The 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 609662. 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.