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

Globe Village, Massachusetts

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fall River City. It lies in ZIP code area 02724. It stands on Townsend Hill. The Survey maps it on the Fall River quadrangle.

Globe Village within Bristol County

Then and now

1888 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Globe Village, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Globe Village, surveyed 1888

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

18 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Globe Village between 2002 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony1

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
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
26 April 2008Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresRhode Island Division of Forest Environmentnot named
21 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
20 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
20 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresRhode Island Division of Forest Environmentnot named
19 April 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresRhode Island Division of Forest Environmentnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,143 shown

Museums hold 1,143 specimens collected within 10 miles of Globe Village between 1844 and 1975: 594 Animalia, 400 Plantae, 85 Fungi, 52 Chromista, 12 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A E Schuyler, A., A. B. Hervey 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
A photograph of the species Hibiscus moscheutos, not of this specimenHibiscus moscheutos subsp. moscheutos1844not recorded
A photograph of the species Pluchea camphorata, not of this specimenPluchea camphorata (L.) DC.1844not recorded
A photograph of the species Ranunculus bulbosus, not of this specimenRanunculus bulbosus L.1850not recorded
A photograph of the species Vitis labrusca, not of this specimenVitis labrusca L.1850not recorded
A photograph of the species Carex spicata, not of this specimenCarex spicata Huds.1859Collector unspecifiedPortsmouth.
A photograph of the species Scolopax minor, not of this specimenScolopax minor J.F.Gmelin, 17891860Alan PooleWestport
A photograph of the species Mercenaria mercenaria, not of this specimenMercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758)1870Lermond, NormanProvidence, Narragansett Bay. In market at Providence.
A photograph of the species Rhynchospora macrostachya, not of this specimenRhynchospora macrostachya Palla1870J. W. CongdonSouth Kingstown
A photograph of the species Aristida longespica, not of this specimenAristida longespica Poir.1871J. W. CongdonJohnston
A photograph of the species Hypericum adpressum, not of this specimenHypericum adpressum W.P.C.Barton1871J. W. CongdonSouth Kingstown
A photograph of the species Lachnanthes caroliniana, not of this specimenLachnanthes caroliniana (Lam.) Dandy1871J. W. CongdonSouth Kingstown
A photograph of the species Orontium aquaticum, not of this specimenOrontium aquaticum L.1871J. W. CongdonSouth Kingstown

All 1,143 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Globe Village: 2 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Swansea PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Kidd QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pca Construction CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tiverton PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Tiverton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Bristol 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
Fall River2.1 miles36
Brayton Point2.2 miles36
South Swansea2.7 miles36
Fall River Station2.8 miles36
Flint Village3.0 miles36
Slades Ferry3.1 miles36
Oak Grove Village3.5 miles36
Mechanicsville3.5 miles36

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612604. 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.