Morseville, 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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• John Spurr Houselisted 1976 · 0.7 miles away
• Charlton Center Historic Districtlisted 1995 · 0.8 miles away

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
• 1937 USGS Leicester quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Leicester quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Leicester quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Leicester quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1969 USGS Leicester quadrangle1:24000
• 1969 USGS Leicester quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1975 USGS Leicester 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, published 1889 names this settlement in its chapter on Charlton 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 28 fires within 5 miles of Morseville between 2016 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. None 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.

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:

• Northside
• Charlton Depot
• Charlton
• Charlton City
• Dodge
• Glen Grove

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 599 specimens collected within 10 miles of Morseville between 1850 and 1975: 275 Plantae, 221 Animalia, 97 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. F. Hill, H. St. John, G.S. Torrey, A. R. Hodgdon; L. B. Smith 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
	Carex tenera var. tenera	1899	R. M. Harper
	Cladonia cornucopioides F.Wilson	1850	J. L. Russell	Leicester
	Adiantum pedatum L.	1866	Collector(s): Elizabeth Emerson Atwater; Preparator(s): Alex Lorenz	Leicester
	Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth	1866	Collector(s): Elizabeth Emerson Atwater; Preparator(s): Alex Lorenz	Leicester
	Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1866	Collector(s): Elizabeth Emerson Atwater; Preparator(s): Alex Lorenz	Leicester
	Calypso bulbosa (L.) Oakes	1878	F.H. Hosford
	Uncinula salicis (DC.) G.Winter	1880	A.B. Seymour
	Bruchia flexuosa (Schwägr.) Müll.Hal.	1881	J. W. Huntington
	Nitella megacarpa (T.F.A.) R.D.W.	1894	G. E. Stern	Lake Lashaway
	Carex convoluta Mack.	1895	T. W. Edmondson	Above Coe's Pond
	Cirsium muticum Michx.	1897	E. L. Morris	Charlton
	Juncus tenuis Willd.	1897	E. L. Morris	Charlton

All 599 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Morseville: 7 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.

Every working 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 610376. 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.