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Heald Village, Massachusetts

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Barre town. It lies in ZIP code area 01005. It stands on Pleasant Brook. The Survey maps it on the Barre quadrangle.

Heald Village 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 Heald Village, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Heald Village, surveyed 1887

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On record in Heald Village

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 surveys from 31 printed 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.

In the county-history sources

23,544 words on this township

History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, published 1889 names this settlement in its chapter on Barre Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The raising of flax, to be more profitable, required mills to return to the people the full benefit of the crop, and two were soon established for crushing or grinding the seed and obtaining the linseed oil ; one of these was on Prince River, at what is now Heald Village, and the other was in the east part of the town. With this oil and pigments their houses were kept neatly painted ; clothier's mills, as they were termed, were established and tanneries erected in various parts of the town; the manufacture of brick, which had been pursued previous to 1800, had been abandoned, the yards near where now live Nathaniel Holland and the heirs of Lysander Crawford having become " worked out," while the one near Charles S.

Passage source: History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, published 1889.

Farther up the stream and about half a mile easterly of the Common is an extensive foundry and machine-shop owned and conducted by Mr. L. S. Heald. This business was established in 1830 by Stephen Heald. Previous to this time a grist-mill and another small building had been erected, in the former of which wood-turning was carried on, Charles Rice having improved the water privilege by constructing a more extensive dam and excavating another pond and canal that he might get out carriage wood-work by machinery. Stephen He.ild, who came to town in 1826 entered his employ, poor in purse but full of energy ; soon afterwards engaging in the iron business, he built up a considerable establishment, where he was successful. In 1850 all of his shop buildings were destroyed by fire and his capital swept away. By the encouragement of individuals he was induced to rebuild, which he did on an enlarged scale, and with better accommodations found his business increasing. In 18G5 two of his sons became co-partners with him. The manufacture of agricultural implements was one of their specialties in which they did a large amount of work. Woodworking and other machinery of various kinds have been an extensive part of thoir manufactures, which have found a market in remote as well as near sections of the country. About these works a pretty little village sprang up, which for many years has been known as Heald Village, At Mr. Heald's death, in 1887, at the age of nearly eighty-eight years, the larger part of the property passed into the hands of his son, L. S. Heald, who carries on the works. Among the agricultural implements that have been made here was a h.iy-tedder, invented by Mr. E. W. Bullard, of this town, which was the first machine ever constructed for turning hay in the field. Amongst other machinery Mr. Heald is now making an improved tedder of his own invention.

Passage source: History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, published 1889.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Barre Town.

Fires near this place

57 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Heald Village between 2015 and 2018, burning about 65 acres in total. None 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 burning32
Recreation and ceremony11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
10 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 August 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 July 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 July 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 July 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,676 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,676 specimens collected within 10 miles of Heald Village between 1839 and 1975: 919 Animalia, 443 Fungi, 290 Plantae, 15 Unrecorded, 9 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. V. Schott, A. Melander, A. Melander & A. Melander 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 Bartramia pomiformis, not of this specimenBartramia pomiformis Hedw.1839unknownBarre
A photograph of the species Carex gracillima, not of this specimenCarex gracillima Schwein.1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Carex intumescens, not of this specimenCarex intumescens Rudge1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Carex lacustris, not of this specimenCarex lacustris Willd.1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Carex stipata, not of this specimenCarex stipata Muhl. ex Willd.1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Cirsium arvense, not of this specimenCirsium arvense (L.) Scop.1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Cypripedium acaule, not of this specimenCypripedium acaule Aiton1839M. S. BebbBarre
Calyptospora goeppertiana J.G.Kühn1895not recordedUS, Massachusetts, Barre
Vaccinium corymbosum L.1895not recordedUS, Massachusetts, Barre
Calosoma calidum (Fabricius, 1775)1896Knab, Frederick (1865-1918)Massachusetts
Chloealtis conspersa (Harris, 1841)1896A.P. Morse
Harpalus affinis (Schrank, 1781)1900unknownMass.

All 1,676 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Heald Village: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Sulfur. 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
Hubbardston MineIron, SulfurPast Producer
Browns TruckingSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
E. J. Connors PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Legion PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
R Curtis Sand and GravelSand 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
Barre0.5 miles31
Mill Village0.7 miles31
White Valley2.5 miles31
South Barre2.7 miles31
Smithville3.1 miles31
Coldbrook Springs3.3 miles31
Barre Plains3.3 miles31
Williamsville3.6 miles31

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122558166The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 617494. 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.