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.
Then and now
1887 to 1988The 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 sheets covering this place
36 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 Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1890 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1932 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:48000
- 1935 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Keene quadrangle1:125000
- 1946 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:31680
- 1946 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:31680
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:24000
- 1971 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:25000
- 1971 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:25000
- 1971 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:24000
- 1971 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:24000
- 1975 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:25000
- 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:25000
- 1988 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:25000
Fires nearby
28 since 2004The 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 burning | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
| 22 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 10 August 2020 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | TULLY MT FIRE |
| 16 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 15 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | 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 |
| 14 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | 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 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,449 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Osmunda regalis L. | 1900 | Bates, J.A. | Royalston. |
![]() | Pyxine sorediata (Ach.) Mont. | 1856 | Charles C. Frost | |
![]() | Veronica L. | 1871 | not recorded | |
![]() | Drosera rotundifolia L. | 1882 | not recorded | |
![]() | Hemitrichia vesparia (Batsch) T.Macbr., 1899 | 1882 | not recorded | Petersham |
![]() | Linnaea borealis subsp. longiflora (Torrey) Hultén | 1882 | not recorded | |
![]() | Moneses uniflora (L.) A.Gray | 1882 | M. A. M. | Winchendon |
![]() | Polygala paucifolia Willd. | 1882 | M. A. M. | |
![]() | Utricularia vulgaris subsp. macrorhiza (Leconte) Clausen | 1886 | M., K. M. | |
![]() | Peltandra virginica (L.) Schott | 1892 | A. | |
| Rosa rubiginosa L. | 1892 | not recorded | ||
| Carex scoparia Schkuhr ex Willd. | 1896 | W. Deane |
All 1,449 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
10 of 16 shownThe 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pegmatite Quarry | Mica, Feldspar | Past Producer | ||
| Pegmetite Quarry | Mica, Feldspar | Producer | Feldspar, Mica | |
| Town Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Talc Quarry | Talc-Soapstone | Producer | Metamorphic | |
| Talc Quarry | Talc-Soapstone | Past Producer | ||
| Pegmatite Occurrence | Mica | Occurrence | Mica | |
| Pegmatite Occurrence | Mica | Occurrence | ||
| South Royalston Mica Mine | Mica | Occurrence | Mica | |
| South Royalston Mica Mine | Mica | Occurrence | ||
| Johnson Iron Mine | Iron | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinedale | 1.2 miles | 32 | |
| Athol | 2.2 miles | 32 | |
| The Street | 3.7 miles | 32 | |
| Camp Caravan | 3.9 miles | 36 | |
| Royalston | 4.0 miles | 36 | |
| South Royalston | 4.1 miles | 36 | |
| Partridgeville | 4.1 miles | 32 | |
| West Royalston | 4.7 miles | 36 |
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 Q122554828 | 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 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.













































