North Uxbridge, Massachusetts
46 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Uxbridge town. It lies in ZIP code area 01569. It stands on Cold Spring Brook. The Survey maps it on the Uxbridge quadrangle. It stands 266 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1886 to 1989The 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.


On record in North Uxbridge
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 1 record
Rogerson's Village Historic Districtlisted 1971
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Crown & Eagle Mills, 123 Hartford Avenue East, North Uxbridgefederal building survey, 66 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
20 surveys from 46 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1944 USGS Uxbridge quadrangle1:31680, 5 printings
- 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Uxbridge quadrangle1:31680
- 1953 USGS Uxbridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Uxbridge quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1969 USGS Uxbridge quadrangle1:25000
- 1975 USGS Uxbridge quadrangle1:25000
- 1982 USGS Uxbridge quadrangle1:25000
- 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
13,661 words on this townshipHistory of Worcester County, Massachusetts, published 1889 names this settlement in its chapter on Uxbridge Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Mumford River has its rise in " Douglas Woods," in Douglas; being increased by streams from Badluck Pond and Manchaug Pond, in Douglas, and by springs and rivulets, and the vast reservoirs in Whitinsville. It enters Uxbridge just south of the Linwood Mills at Whitin's Station ; thence through North Uxbridge, furnishing power to the great cotton-mills there located; thence southeasterly to Uxbridge Centre, joining the Blackstone about threequarters of a mile southeasterly of the railroad station, at what is called the " Forks of the River." The Capron Mills are located upon this river.
Passage source: History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, published 1889.
Uxbridge Centre (where are located the Town Hall, Unitarian, Trinitarian, Methodist and Roman Catholic Churches, Capron Mills, principal stores, post-office and railway station) comprises about one-third of the population ; North Uxbridge (also a post-office village) contains the Uxbridge Cotton-Mills and the Baptist Church. The next largest village is the
Passage source: History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, published 1889.
An interesting episode of the Revoluionary period was the visit of General (jcorge Washington to Uxbridge, in the year 1780, on his journey from Boston to Hartford. General Washington, then President of the United States, passed a night at a tavern kept by the father of Warner Taft, at North Uxbridge, and was so well pleased with the attention he received, that at Hartford, on the 8th of November, 1789, on his way home, he wrote the following letter to Mr. Taft, near Uxbridge, ]\Iaas. :
Passage source: History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, published 1889.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Uxbridge Town - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
80 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of North Uxbridge between 2002 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning | 24 |
| Smoking | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
| 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 |
| 19 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 8 August 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 6 August 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 30 August 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 475 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 475 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Uxbridge between 1844 and 1974: 250 Plantae, 175 Animalia, 36 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 | 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 | |
![]() | Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825 | 1857 | Weinland, David Friedrich |
All 475 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 23 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of North Uxbridge: 17 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. 4 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uxbridge Prospect | Lead, Zinc | Prospect | ||
| Barnett Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Direnzo Brothers Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Douglas Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gilbon Mountain Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Guiou Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Helca Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hutnak Construction Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Johnson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mable Johnson | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Uxbridge in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Uxbridge | $500 | In Uxbridge, a tree was down on Hartford Avenue West. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linwood | 0.7 miles | 46 | |
| Uxbridge | 0.9 miles | 46 | |
| Wheelockville | 1.5 miles | 50 | |
| Hundred Acre Lot | 1.6 miles | 46 | |
| Centerville | 1.8 miles | 50 | |
| Whitinsville | 2.1 miles | 46 | |
| Halfway House | 2.3 miles | 46 | |
| Plummer Corner | 2.4 miles | 46 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on North Uxbridge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7057091 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 611038. 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.































