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

Hubbardston, Massachusetts

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Hubbardston town. It lies in ZIP code area 01452. It stands on Mason Brook. The Survey maps it on the Barre quadrangle.

Hubbardston 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 Hubbardston, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Hubbardston, surveyed 1887

Compare 1887 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

31 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

43 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Hubbardston between 2015 and 2020, burning about 32 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
18 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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 ceremony1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
26 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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 1,588 shown

Museums hold 1,588 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hubbardston between 1839 and 1974: 837 Animalia, 414 Fungi, 316 Plantae, 12 Protozoa, 9 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. V. Schott, A. J. Stone, 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
Specimen of Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.1895James F. CollinsSouth spur, Mount Wachusett
Specimen of Athyrium filix-femina subsp. angustum (Willd.) R.T.ClausenAthyrium filix-femina subsp. angustum (Willd.) R.T.Clausen1900DavenportPine Hill; Medford
Specimen of Pooecetes gramineus gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)Pooecetes gramineus gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1900Roscoe I. Giles
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
A photograph of the species Moneses uniflora, not of this specimenMoneses uniflora (L.) A.Gray1893J. F. Collins
Calyptospora goeppertiana J.G.Kühn1895not recordedUS, Massachusetts, Barre

All 1,588 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hubbardston: 3 past producers. None of them 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
Hubbardston Hwy Dept PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hubbardston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Worcester County

Storms nearby

13 since 1995

The National Weather Service names Hubbardston in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2010Thunderstorm WindHubbardston$40,000Four telephone poles at the intersection of Route 68 and Route 62 were downed by thunderstorm winds. Several trees also were downed along Route 68.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindHubbardston$5,000A tree on New Templeton Road in Hubbardston was downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindHubbardston$5,000Wires were downed on several streets throughout town.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindHubbardston$5,000A tree was downed on Barre Road by thunderstorm winds.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindHubbardston$3,000At 6 PM EST, thunderstorm winds brought several trees down in a backyard on Mt. Jefferson Road in Hubbardston.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindHubbardston$2,000In Hubbardston, multiple trees were downed around town. One was at the Barre Road Cutoff.
May 2024HailHubbardston-In Hubbardston quarter sized hail fell.
July 2023Flash FloodHubbardston-In Hubbardston, there was urban flooding with a car stuck in floodwaters.
September 2018Flash FloodHubbardston-At 9:30 AM EST, the West Branch of the Ware River in Hubbardston overflowed its banks and flooded Brigham Street.
October 2018HailHubbardston-Penny-size hail fell on Hubbardston.
October 2018Tornado (EF0)Hubbardston-Although the NWS did not conduct an on-site survey for this storm, we declared that a tornado touched down in Hubbardston around 426 PM EDT. The determination was based on doppler radar imagery, damage photos, conversations with town officials, and the history of storms in the region that afternoon. This tornado was from a separate cell from the one that produced a tornado in Hardwick. The tornado began on the northernmost island within Brigham Pond. It traveled to the northeast, crossing near Brigham Street and Evergreen Road, the moved across railroad tracks, and ended in a wooded area a short distance beyond the tracks, to the west of the southern portion of Old Westminster Road. Dozens of trees were uprooted or snapped in half. A few telephone poles were snapped at the top. Some siding from a building was discovered on Old Westminster Road.
August 2015HailHubbardston-no account filed
October 1995Thunderstorm WindHubbardston-no account filed

Every storm 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
Hubbardston Station1.3 miles46
Barre Falls3.2 miles31
North Rutland3.4 miles46
Williamsville3.9 miles31
Pitcherville3.9 miles33
Princeton Station4.7 miles46
New Boston5.0 miles46
Partidgeville5.6 miles33

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609931. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.