Lunenburg Station, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1988

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.

• 1893 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:24000
• 1935 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:31680
• 1935 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:31680
• 1936 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1939 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:31680
• 1939 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:31680
• 1939 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:25000
• 1950 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:24000
• 1955 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:25000
• 1955 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:25000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:25000
• 1965 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:25000
• 1965 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Ayer quadrangle1:25000
• 1988 USGS Ayer quadrangle1:25000
• 1988 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Lunenburg Station between 2002 and 2020, burning about 2,672 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.

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:

• Bolton
• Camp Green Eyrie
• Devens
• Five Corners
• Gates Crossing
• Harvard

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Museums hold 1,898 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lunenburg Station between 1861 and 1974: 1,155 Animalia, 542 Plantae, 183 Fungi, 9 Unrecorded, 8 Chromista, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. C. Gibson, A. Ferrett 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
	Exidia glandulosa (Bull.) Fr.	1896	F. O. Grover	Prospect Hill
	Athyrium filix-femina subsp. angustum (Willd.) R.T.Clausen	1900	Davenport	Pine Hill; Medford
	Dryobates pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)	1861	not recorded	Bolton
	Clemmys insculpta Fitzinger, 1835	1864	Agassiz
	Hylesinus aculeatus Say & T., 1824	1872	unknown	Fitchburg
	Carex foenea Willd.	1878	W. Boott	Wachusett Mountain
	Bromus sterilis L.	1879	C. E. Faxon
	Megascops asio asio (Linnaeus, 1758)	1879	Smith, J. C.; Thomas Wilmer Dewing collection	Groton
	Merulius lacrymans (Wulfen) Schumach.	1879	Howes, A.	Massachusetts
	Sibbaldiopsis tridentata (Aiton) Rydb.	1879	Bailey, W.W.	summit of Mt. Wachusett
	Papaver orientale L.	1880	unknown	Townsend.
	Arthuriomyces peckianus (Howe) Cummins & Y.Hirats.	1892	W. B. Hosmer

All 1,898 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Lunenburg Station: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lithium, Tin, Geothermal. 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.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 617157. 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.