Greenwich, Massachusetts

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.

1887 1985

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.

• 1887 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
• 1890 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1942 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Winsor Dam quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1952 USGS Winsor Dam quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1952 USGS Winsor Dam quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Winsor Dam quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Winsor Dam quadrangle1:25000
• 1975 USGS Winsor Dam quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, published 1889 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Greenwich (historical) between 2004 and 2020, burning about 2 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Greenwich Village (historical)
• Gilbertville
• Hardwick

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 251 specimens collected within 10 miles of Greenwich (historical) between 1857 and 1974: 174 Animalia, 58 Plantae, 18 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Lavallee, A. P. Chute, A.B. Seymour 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
	Krigia virginica (L.) Willd.	1857	not recorded
	Carex cephalophora Muhl. ex Willd.	1858	J. Blake
	Carex vestita Willd.	1858	J. Blake	Ware
	Castilleja coccinea (L.) Spreng.	1858	A. P. Chute
	Celastrus scandens L.	1858	s.coll.
	Ranunculus flabellaris Raf.	1858	A. P. Chute
	Trifolium agrarium L.	1858	not recorded
	Zizia aurea (L.) W.D.J.Koch	1859	A. P. Chute
	Cladonia squamosa Hoffm.	1870	M.E.T.	Hardwick
	Calosoma calidum (Fabricius, 1775)	1896	Knab, Frederick (1865-1918)	Massachusetts
	Chloealtis conspersa (Harris, 1841)	1896	A.P. Morse
	Colletes nudus Robertson, 1898	1898	Bango, A	Wareham

All 251 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Greenwich (historical): 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Worcester County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 617487. 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.