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Marks Garrison, Massachusetts

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in West Brookfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 01585. It stands on Mill Brook. The Survey maps it on the Warren quadrangle.

Marks Garrison within Worcester County

Then and now

1887 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Marks Garrison, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Marks Garrison, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

34 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

38 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Marks Garrison between 2015 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 3 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 burning12
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 June 2015Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 June 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 June 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 May 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 May 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 May 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder 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 338 shown

Museums hold 338 specimens collected within 10 miles of Marks Garrison between 1857 and 1975: 184 Plantae, 81 Fungi, 71 Animalia, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. F. Hill, H. St. John, G.S. Torrey, A. Lavallee, A. P. Chute 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 Carex tenera var. teneraCarex tenera var. tenera1899R. M. Harper
A photograph of the species Krigia virginica, not of this specimenKrigia virginica (L.) Willd.1857not recorded
A photograph of the species Carex cephalophora, not of this specimenCarex cephalophora Muhl. ex Willd.1858J. Blake
A photograph of the species Carex vestita, not of this specimenCarex vestita Willd.1858J. BlakeWare
A photograph of the species Castilleja coccinea, not of this specimenCastilleja coccinea (L.) Spreng.1858A. P. Chute
A photograph of the species Celastrus scandens, not of this specimenCelastrus scandens L.1858s.coll.
A photograph of the species Ranunculus flabellaris, not of this specimenRanunculus flabellaris Raf.1858A. P. Chute
Trifolium agrarium L.1858not recorded
A photograph of the species Zizia aurea, not of this specimenZizia aurea (L.) W.D.J.Koch1859A. P. Chute
A photograph of the species Cladonia squamosa, not of this specimenCladonia squamosa Hoffm.1870M.E.T.Hardwick
Nitella megacarpa (T.F.A.) R.D.W.1894G. E. SternLake Lashaway
Calosoma calidum (Fabricius, 1775)1896Knab, Frederick (1865-1918)Massachusetts

All 338 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 Marks Garrison: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
B and C Gravel CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bond Washed Sand and StoneSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cemetery Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
E W Sykes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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
West Brookfield1.0 miles34
Warren2.3 miles34
Brookfield3.3 miles33
West Warren4.3 miles34
North Brookfield4.6 miles32
New Braintree5.9 miles30
Gilbertville6.0 miles30
East Brookfield6.0 miles33

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 Q122551623The 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 617502. 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.