North Milford, Massachusetts

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.

1886 1989

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.

• 1886 USGS Blackstone quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Blackstone quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Blackstone quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1900 USGS Blackstone quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
• 1908 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1919 USGS Blackstone quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000
• 1946 USGS Milford quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Milford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS Milford quadrangle1:31680
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1968 USGS Milford quadrangle1:24000
• 1968 USGS Milford quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Milford quadrangle1:25000
• 1982 USGS Milford quadrangle1:25000
• 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 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of North Milford between 2004 and 2020, burning about 210 acres in total. None started naturally. 40 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:

• Hopedale
• Milford
• Rocky Hill
• Spindleville
• White City
• South Milford

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 465 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Milford between 1844 and 1975: 207 Plantae, 151 Animalia, 102 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. P. D. Piguet, 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	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
	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

All 465 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of North Milford: 15 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 617182. 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.