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Grand View Estates, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Dudley town. It lies in ZIP code area 01571. The Survey maps it on the Webster quadrangle.

Grand View Estates within Worcester County

Then and now

1889 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Grand View Estates, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Grand View Estates, surveyed 1889

Topographic sheets covering this place

42 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

67 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Grand View Estates between 2007 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
Debris and open burning25
Recreation and ceremony13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 483 shown

Museums hold 483 specimens collected within 10 miles of Grand View Estates between 1875 and 1975: 213 Animalia, 197 Plantae, 60 Fungi, 10 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. R. Hodgdon; F. L. Steele, A. S. Pease 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 Coccyzus erythropthalmus, not of this specimenCoccyzus erythropthalmus (A.Wilson, 1811)1875Francois Hue
A photograph of the species Sterna dougallii, not of this specimenSterna dougallii dougallii Montagu, 18131875Towne, E B, JrMassachusetts
A photograph of the species Sterna paradisaea, not of this specimenSterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 17631875Towne, E B, JrMassachusetts
A photograph of the species Calypso bulbosa, not of this specimenCalypso bulbosa (L.) Oakes1878F.H. Hosford
A photograph of the species Uncinula salicis, not of this specimenUncinula salicis (DC.) G.Winter1880A.B. Seymour
A photograph of the species Bruchia flexuosa, not of this specimenBruchia flexuosa (Schwägr.) Müll.Hal.1881J. W. Huntington
A photograph of the species Didymium melanospermum, not of this specimenDidymium melanospermum (Pers.) T.Macbr., 18991883Farlow, W.G.
Uromyces hyperici (Schwein.) M.A.Curtis1883A. B. SeymourGreenville
Sterna hirundo hirundo Linnaeus, 17581892Babbitt, J PMassachusetts
Accipiter striatus Vieillot, 18081894not recordedMASSACHUSETTS: Ponkahog
Leucothoe racemosa (L.) A.Gray1895T. W. EdmondsonMillbury
Ammodramus caudacutus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)1896W. J. WirtMASSACHUSETTS: North Town

All 483 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 15 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Grand View Estates: 12 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
New Haven Traprock Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Charlton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Highway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Old Webster Road PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oxford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oxford Quarry Plant #8Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ricciardi Asphalt CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Robbins Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Scavone Construction CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Scavone Construction CoSand 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
West Oxford1.0 miles42
South Charlton1.5 miles42
Community Park (historical)1.8 miles42
Buffumville2.0 miles42
Sunnyside2.0 miles42
Hodges Village2.1 miles42
Tufts Village (historical)2.3 miles42
Oxford2.5 miles43

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1979892. 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.