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Millville, Massachusetts

50 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Millville town. It lies in ZIP code area 01529. It stands on Estey Hill. The Survey maps it on the Blackstone quadrangle.

Millville within Worcester County

Then and now

1886 to 1989

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.

Topographic sheet of Millville, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Millville, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

50 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

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.

Chestnut Hill Meetinghouse, Chestnut Street, Millville, Worcester County, MA
Chestnut Hill Meetinghouse, Chestnut Street, Millville, Worcester County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

89 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Millville between 2002 and 2020, burning about 71 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
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Recreation and ceremony13
Smoking11
Arson/incendiarism10
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1

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
8 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
21 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresMassachusetts 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 335 shown

Museums hold 335 specimens collected within 10 miles of Millville between 1844 and 1974: 172 Plantae, 124 Animalia, 25 Fungi, 9 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Chilonectria coryli (Fuckel) Ellis & Everh.Chilonectria coryli (Fuckel) Ellis & Everh.1896Henderson
Specimen of Coryneum pulvinatum KunzeCoryneum pulvinatum Kunze1897D. Murray
A photograph of the species Trichophorum planifolium, not of this specimenTrichophorum planifolium (Spreng.) Palla1844Collector unspecifiedUxbridge
A photograph of the species Carex vesicaria, not of this specimenCarex vesicaria L.1848J. W. Robbins
A photograph of the species Potamogeton epihydrus, not of this specimenPotamogeton epihydrus Raf.1848J. W. RobbinsUxbridge
A photograph of the species Potamogeton bicupulatus, not of this specimenPotamogeton bicupulatus Fernald1854W. J. RobbinsUxbridge
A photograph of the species Carex brevior, not of this specimenCarex brevior (Dewey) Mack.1855J. W. Robbins
A photograph of the species Carex normalis, not of this specimenCarex normalis Mack.1855J. W. Robbins
A photograph of the species Carex siccata, not of this specimenCarex siccata Dewey1855J. W. Robbins
A photograph of the species Carex straminea, not of this specimenCarex straminea Willd. ex Schkuhr1855J. W. Robbins
A photograph of the species Hyla versicolor, not of this specimenHyla versicolor LeConte, 18251857Weinland, David Friedrich
Sterna hirundo hirundo Linnaeus, 17581892Babbitt, J PMassachusetts

All 335 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 11 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Millville: 8 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc. 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
Uxbridge ProspectLead, ZincProspect
Candlewood Recreation AreaSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Helca PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oliveira PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
R A Bergesson and SonsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Schnorr Const Inc Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Schnorr Constr. Co., Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Town of UxbridgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Uxbridge PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Uxbridge PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Worcester County

Storms nearby

7 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Millville in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2018FloodMillville$5,000At 5:20 PM EST in Millville, a car was trapped in flood waters on Central Street near the Bike Path. Flooding was also occurring on Main Street.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindMillville$5,000A tree on Chestnut Hill Road and a limb on Hill Street were downed by thunderstorm winds. Most of Chestnut Hill Road was blocked by the fallen tree.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMillville$5,000A tree was downed blocking a road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMillville$2,500Multiple trees were reported downed across the town of Millville.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMillville$2,000In Blackstone, trees were down on Lincoln Street at Tee Jay Lane. Also, a tree was down at the intersection of Goddard and Washington Streets.
August 2017LightningMillville$1,000At 630 PM EST, a two-foot diameter tree was struck by lightning on Providence Street in Millville.
July 1998LightningMillville-no account filed

Every storm 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
Chestnut Hill Meeting House1.2 miles50
Ironstone1.6 miles50
Blackstone2.2 miles50
Centerville3.5 miles50
East Blackstone3.8 miles50
Wheelockville4.1 miles50
Uxbridge4.3 miles46
Millerville4.3 miles44

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 611558. 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.