Millbury, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1889 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 3 records

• First Presbyterian Society Meeting Houselisted 2010
• US Post Office-Millbury Mainlisted 1987
• Asa Waters Mansionlisted 1978

Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records

• 215 North Main Street (House), Millburyfederal building survey, 11 photographs
• Blackstone Canal Millbury Segment, Beginning northwest of State Route 146 & McCracken Road, running along west side of Route 146, Millburyfederal building survey, 15 photographs
• Blackstone Canal Worcester-Millbury Segment, Eastern bank of Blackstone River, Millburyfederal building survey, 4 photographs

Businesses named in the fire insurance atlases 12 of 19 shown

• Baptist ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1888 to 1904
• Biverlin Steel WorksWorks, in the atlas of 1899
• Mason, J., & Sons), Cotton MillMill, in the atlas of 1888 to 1899
• Tourtellott HotelHotel, in the atlas of 1888 to 1904
• Assumption ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1904
• Atlanta MillMill, in the atlas of 1888
• Bramanville Cotton MillMill, in the atlas of 1888
• Catholie ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1899
• Dorrity Pond MillMill, in the atlas of 1899
• Harris, A. J., Saw MillSaw Mill, in the atlas of 1904
• Lapham, M. A., Woolen MillMill, in the atlas of 1888
• Mayo Mills CoMill, in the atlas of 1899

Every atlas business in Worcester County

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.

• 1889 USGS Webster quadrangle1:62500
• 1892 USGS Webster quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1908 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1921 USGS Webster quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Millbury quadrangle1:24000
• 1939 USGS Worcester South quadrangle1:31680, 4 printings
• 1943 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Worcester South quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Worcester South quadrangle1:31680
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Worcester South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1973 USGS Worcester South quadrangle1:25000
• 1973 USGS Worcester South quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Worcester South quadrangle1:25000
• 1983 USGS Worcester South quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 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 Millbury Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Millbury between 2002 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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:

• Bramanville
• East Sutton
• Farnumsville
• Fisherville
• Saundersville
• Wilkinsonville

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,585 specimens collected within 10 miles of Millbury between 1839 and 1974: 953 Plantae, 356 Animalia, 244 Fungi, 14 Unrecorded, 14 Protozoa, 4 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A E WOODHEAD, A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour 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
	Ochrolechia tartarea (L.) A.Massal.	1839	E. Tuckerman
	Carex laxiflora Lam.	1840	Thomas Nuttall	Cambridge.
	Carex vestita Willd.	1840	Thomas Nuttall	Cambridge.
	Mycobilimbia hypnorum (Lib.) Kalb & Hafellner	1848	E. Tuckerman
	Cladonia cornucopioides F.Wilson	1850	J. L. Russell	Leicester
	Geranium maculatum L.	1850	not recorded
	Packera aurea (L.) Á.Löve & D.Löve	1850	not recorded
	Carex aperta Boott	1853	W. Boott	Massachusetts
	Elymus repens (L.) Gould	1892	Arthur B. Seymour	Cambridge.

All 1,585 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Millbury: 15 past producers, 5 producers, 2 plants, 1 unknown. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Titanium, Metal. 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 Millbury in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 610657. 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.