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

Harrisville, Massachusetts

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Winchendon town. It lies in ZIP code area 01475. It stands on Spud Brook. The Survey maps it on the Winchendon quadrangle.

Harrisville within Worcester County

Then and now

1887 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harrisville, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Harrisville, surveyed 1887

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

10 since 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Harrisville between 2010 and 2020, burning about 7 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
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
15 September 2010Naturalunder an acreNew Hampshire Division of Forest and Landsnot named
3 July 2016Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 May 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
31 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
26 May 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
20 May 2018Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 April 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder 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 320 shown

Museums hold 320 specimens collected within 10 miles of Harrisville between 1871 and 1973: 189 Plantae, 109 Animalia, 22 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A., A. F. Newton, A. Morse 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 Osmunda regalis L.Osmunda regalis L.1900Bates, J.A.Royalston.
A photograph of the species Veronica L., not of this specimenVeronica L.1871not recorded
A photograph of the species Drosera rotundifolia, not of this specimenDrosera rotundifolia L.1882not recorded
A photograph of the species Linnaea borealis, not of this specimenLinnaea borealis subsp. longiflora (Torrey) Hultén1882not recorded
A photograph of the species Moneses uniflora, not of this specimenMoneses uniflora (L.) A.Gray1882M. A. M.Winchendon
A photograph of the species Polygala paucifolia, not of this specimenPolygala paucifolia Willd.1882M. A. M.
A photograph of the species Utricularia vulgaris, not of this specimenUtricularia vulgaris subsp. macrorhiza (Leconte) Clausen1886M., K. M.
A photograph of the species Vaccinium macrocarpon, not of this specimenVaccinium macrocarpon Aiton1886not recorded
A photograph of the species Sparganium erectum, not of this specimenSparganium erectum Wahlenb.1890A.
A photograph of the species Peltandra virginica, not of this specimenPeltandra virginica (L.) Schott1892A.
Rosa rubiginosa L.1892not recorded
Carex scoparia Schkuhr ex Willd.1896W. Deane

All 320 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 Harrisville: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica, Feldspar, Mica, Feldspar. 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
Beryl Hill Mica QuarriesMica, FeldsparOccurrenceFeldspar, Mica
Beryl Hill Mica QuarriesMica, FeldsparPast Producer
Sibley Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Winchendon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Winchendon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Bullardville0.8 miles36
Hydeville2.0 miles36
Waterville2.6 miles36
Winchendon2.7 miles36
Glenallen3.7 miles36
Winchendon Springs3.9 miles36
Winchendon Center4.1 miles36
Neale Place4.6 miles36

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609925. 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.