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

Goodrichville, Massachusetts

44 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Lunenburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 01462. It stands on Clarks Hill. The Survey maps it on the Shirley quadrangle.

Goodrichville within Worcester County

Then and now

1893 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Goodrichville, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Goodrichville, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

44 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

86 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Goodrichville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Smoking	16
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	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
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
29 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
27 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
26 August 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
19 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
6 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,903 shown

Museums hold 1,903 specimens collected within 10 miles of Goodrichville between 1872 and 1974: 1,129 Animalia, 521 Plantae, 191 Fungi, 46 Protozoa, 10 Unrecorded, 6 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. C. Gibson, A. Ferrett 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Exidia glandulosa (Bull.) Fr.	1896	F. O. Grover	Prospect Hill
Hylesinus aculeatus Say & T., 1824	1872	unknown	Fitchburg
Megascops asio asio (Linnaeus, 1758)	1879	Smith, J. C.; Thomas Wilmer Dewing collection	Groton
Papaver orientale L.	1880	unknown	Townsend.
Strix varia varia Barton, 1799	1880	Smith, J. C.; Thomas Wilmer Dewing collection	Groton
unnamed	1881	Sargent, F. L.	Groton, Mass. [Massachusetts]
Conocephalum conicum (L.) Underw.	1881	Charles W. Swan
Hypericum gentianoides (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.	1881	Fredrick L Sargent	Lunenburg
Nitella megacarpa (T.F.A.) R.D.W.	1881	T. F. Allen	Nashua River
Arthuriomyces peckianus (Howe) Cummins & Y.Hirats.	1892	W. B. Hosmer
Phyllosticta kalmicola (Schwein.) Ellis & Everh.	1894	H. L. Jones
Seiurus aurocapilla aurocapilla (Linnaeus, 1766)	1894	Collector(s): James Lee Peters	Harvard

All 1,903 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Goodrichville: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Keating Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Keating Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Adams Excavating Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Harbor Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hazen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Luenburg Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
P J Keating	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Szocik Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Townsend Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lunenburg	1.2 miles	44
Whalom	2.8 miles	44
Lunenburg Station	4.3 miles	44
North Leominster	4.3 miles	44
South Fitchburg	4.8 miles	42
West Leominster	4.9 miles	42
Fitchburg	5.4 miles	42
Leominster	5.9 miles	42

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 610758. 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.