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

Globe Village, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Southbridge Town City. It lies in ZIP code area 01550. It stands on McKinstry Brook. The Survey maps it on the Southbridge quadrangle.

Globe Village within Worcester County

Then and now

1887 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 98 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 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

39 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

21 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Globe Village between 2015 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning8
Smoking6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
23 August 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 June 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 June 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 June 2020Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
26 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
26 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
19 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts 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 362 shown

Museums hold 362 specimens collected within 10 miles of Globe Village between 1874 and 1975: 199 Plantae, 88 Animalia, 73 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. F. Hill, H. St. John, G.S. Torrey, A. R. Hodgdon; L. B. Smith, A. R. Hodgdon; F. L. Steele 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 Carex tenera var. teneraCarex tenera var. tenera1899R. M. Harper
Nitella megacarpa (T.F.A.) R.D.W.1874Piper, S. M.
A photograph of the species Catharus guttatus, not of this specimenCatharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921)1888not recordedOxford
A photograph of the species Sphagnum tenellum, not of this specimenSphagnum tenellum (Schimp.) H.Klinggr.1889Edwin FaxonHammond's Pond
A photograph of the species Gavia immer, not of this specimenGavia immer (Brunnich, 1764)1890Jones, Clinton MellenSouthbridge
A photograph of the species Parmotrema perforatum, not of this specimenParmotrema perforatum (Jacq.) A.Massal.1890G. E. StoneWebster
A photograph of the species Trichia contorta, not of this specimenTrichia contorta (Ditmar) Rostaf., 18751890Harvey, F. L.
A photograph of the species Diphyscium foliosum, not of this specimenDiphyscium foliosum (Hedw.) D.Mohr1891Lucien M. Underwood
Lycaenidae1894not recorded
A photograph of the species Cirsium muticum, not of this specimenCirsium muticum Michx.1897E. L. MorrisCharlton
A photograph of the species Juncus tenuis, not of this specimenJuncus tenuis Willd.1897E. L. MorrisCharlton
A photograph of the species Apocynum androsaemifolium, not of this specimenApocynum androsaemifolium L.1898E. L. MorrisWales

All 362 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Globe Village: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Ciesla Brothers IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Ciesla PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Highway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Landfill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Town of SouthbridgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Town of SturbridgeSand 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
Southbridge0.9 miles39
Westville1.0 miles39
Sandersdale2.1 miles39
Sturbridge2.4 miles39
Robinson Crusoe Camp2.6 miles39
Old Sturbridge Village3.2 miles39
Snellville (historical)3.5 miles39
Fiskdale4.2 miles39

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 610060. 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.