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

North Dana, Massachusetts

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Petersham town. It stands on Fever Brook. The Survey maps it on the Quabbin Reservoir quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

North Dana within Worcester County

Then and now

1887 to 1990

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 North Dana (historical), surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of North Dana (historical), surveyed 1887

Compare 1887 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

32 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

2 since 2018

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of North Dana (historical) between 2018 and 2020, burning about 1 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning2

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
21 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts 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 1,604 shown

Museums hold 1,604 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Dana (historical) between 1839 and 1975: 927 Animalia, 416 Fungi, 237 Plantae, 15 Unrecorded, 9 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. V. Schott, A. Melander, A. Melander & A. Melander 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
A photograph of the species Bartramia pomiformis, not of this specimenBartramia pomiformis Hedw.1839unknownBarre
A photograph of the species Carex gracillima, not of this specimenCarex gracillima Schwein.1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Carex intumescens, not of this specimenCarex intumescens Rudge1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Carex lacustris, not of this specimenCarex lacustris Willd.1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Carex stipata, not of this specimenCarex stipata Muhl. ex Willd.1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Cirsium arvense, not of this specimenCirsium arvense (L.) Scop.1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Cypripedium acaule, not of this specimenCypripedium acaule Aiton1839M. S. BebbBarre
Calyptospora goeppertiana J.G.Kühn1895not recordedUS, Massachusetts, Barre
Vaccinium corymbosum L.1895not recordedUS, Massachusetts, Barre
Polyporus cinnabarinus (Jacq.) Fr.1927Spaulding P.Petersham
unnamed1928Spaulding P.; Hansbrough J. R.Petersham
Botrytis P.Micheli, 17291928Perley SpauldingPetersham

All 1,604 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Dana (historical)1.7 miles32
Dana Center3.7 miles31
Nichewaug4.2 miles31
Greenwich Village (historical)5.0 miles32
South Athol5.3 miles32
Petersham5.3 miles31
Burrage Corner5.3 miles32
Eaglesville6.5 miles32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 617511. 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.