Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Millerville, Massachusetts

44 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Blackstone town. It lies in ZIP code area 01504. It stands on Mill River. The Survey maps it on the Blackstone quadrangle.

Millerville within Worcester County

Then and now

1887 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Millerville, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Millerville, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

44 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

68 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Millerville between 2002 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Debris and open burning	19
Arson/incendiarism	10
Smoking	8
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
29 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
27 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.4 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 205 shown

Museums hold 205 specimens collected within 10 miles of Millerville between 1844 and 1974: 123 Plantae, 70 Animalia, 9 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. R. Hodgdon; F. L. Steele, 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
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
Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)	1928	CL & LC Hubbs	West River at Uxbridge, trib. to Blackwater River; Providence River system
Etheostoma olmstedi Storer, 1842	1928	CL & LC Hubbs	West River at Uxbridge, trib. to Blackwater River; Providence River system
Lepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1928	CL & LC Hubbs	West River at Uxbridge, trib. to Blackwater River; Providence River system

All 205 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Millerville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Candlewood Recreation Area	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Oliveira Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
East Blackstone	1.6 miles	50
Blackstone	2.2 miles	50
Millville	4.3 miles	50
Chestnut Hill Meeting House	4.5 miles	50
South Milford	5.7 miles	50
Ironstone	5.9 miles	50
Mendon	6.5 miles	50
Spindleville	6.7 miles	50

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 617727. 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.