Milford, Massachusetts

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• Worcester County

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 1989

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 7 records

• Gillon Blocklisted 1982
• Memorial Halllisted 1985
• Milford Town Halllisted 1977
• Azariah Newton Houselisted 1999
• Prospect Heights Historic Districtlisted 1990
• Ted's Dinerlisted 2000
• Thom Blocklisted 1983

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

• Thirty-four-mile Stone, Milfordfederal building survey, 1 photograph

Businesses named in the fire insurance atlases 8 records

• Berain. J Carpenter ShopShop, in the atlas of 1885
• Gouchers HotelHotel, in the atlas of 1903
• Green Bros., Naphtha-worksWorks, in the atlas of 1903
• Journal PrintingPrinting, in the atlas of 1903
• Methodist Episcopal ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1903
• Oliver Street schoolSchool, in the atlas of 1910
• Powers, J., LiveryLivery, in the atlas of 1885
• Sacred Heart Church (Italian)Church, in the atlas of 1910

Milford grew from 25,055 to 26,971 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1886 USGS Blackstone quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Blackstone quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Blackstone quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1900 USGS Blackstone quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
• 1908 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1919 USGS Blackstone quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000
• 1946 USGS Milford quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Milford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS Milford quadrangle1:31680
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1968 USGS Milford quadrangle1:24000
• 1968 USGS Milford quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Milford quadrangle1:25000
• 1982 USGS Milford quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Worcester County, Massachusetts : with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men., published 1889 names this settlement in its chapter on Milford Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Milford between 2003 and 2020, burning about 226 acres in total. None started naturally. 39 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.

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:

• Hopedale
• North Milford
• Rocky Hill
• Spindleville
• White City
• South Milford

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 423 specimens collected within 10 miles of Milford between 1844 and 1975: 187 Plantae, 132 Animalia, 99 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. P. D. Piguet, A. R. Hodgdon; F. L. Steele 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
	Chilonectria coryli (Fuckel) Ellis & Everh.	1896	Henderson
	Coryneum pulvinatum Kunze	1897	D. Murray
	Sceptridium dissectum (Spreng.) Lyon	1899	H. H. Scudder
	Trichophorum planifolium (Spreng.) Palla	1844	Collector unspecified	Uxbridge
	Carex vesicaria L.	1848	J. W. Robbins
	Potamogeton epihydrus Raf.	1848	J. W. Robbins	Uxbridge
	Potamogeton bicupulatus Fernald	1854	W. J. Robbins	Uxbridge
	Carex brevior (Dewey) Mack.	1855	J. W. Robbins
	Carex normalis Mack.	1855	J. W. Robbins
	Carex siccata Dewey	1855	J. W. Robbins
	Carex straminea Willd. ex Schkuhr	1855	J. W. Robbins
	Carex vulpinoidea Michx.	1861	not recorded

All 423 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Milford: 17 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milford in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

Every storm 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 611362. 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.