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Hydeville, 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 Tarbell Brook. The Survey maps it on the Winchendon quadrangle.

Hydeville 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 Hydeville, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Hydeville, 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

12 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Hydeville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony5
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
3 July 2016Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 June 2020Debris 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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 457 shown

Museums hold 457 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hydeville between 1856 and 1973: 215 Plantae, 154 Animalia, 87 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A., A. F. Newton, A. J. Stone 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 Pyxine sorediata, not of this specimenPyxine sorediata (Ach.) Mont.1856Charles C. Frost
A photograph of the species Carex maritima, not of this specimenCarex maritima Gunnerus1870J. W. CongdonWellville
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 Peltandra virginica, not of this specimenPeltandra virginica (L.) Schott1892A.
Rosa rubiginosa L.1892not recorded
Carex scoparia Schkuhr ex Willd.1896W. Deane

All 457 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Hydeville: 5 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
Lost Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sibley Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Templeton 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
Waterville0.6 miles36
Bullardville1.3 miles36
Winchendon1.5 miles36
Harrisville2.0 miles36
Winchendon Center2.2 miles36
Glenallen2.5 miles36
Winchendon Springs3.1 miles36
Pequoig3.4 miles36

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609933. 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.