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Pattenville, Massachusetts

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Billerica town. It lies in ZIP code area 01821. It stands on Content Brook. The Survey maps it on the Wilmington quadrangle.

Pattenville within Middlesex County

Then and now

1886 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pattenville, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Pattenville, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

41 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Billerica town, in the words of 1908.

1908, Billerica Town

Crosby

14. Josiah, son of Josiali. 5, b. 1704, Aug. 5; m. 1729-30, Feb. 3, Elizabetli French, dau. of William, 7. She d. 1739, Nov. 27. He d. before 1743. Killed by the Indians says tradition. Ch. Josiah. b. 3730, Nov. 24. He was in the military service in 1747, on the C-onnecticut river, and narrowly escaped with his life by swimming the river from the anibusead(» in which French.

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Fires nearby

65 since 2008

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Pattenville between 2008 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 1 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 burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
17 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 May 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 Middlesex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 472 shown

Museums hold 472 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pattenville between 1898 and 1975: 225 Animalia, 196 Plantae, 42 Fungi, 5 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Mathieson, A. E. Feldman, A. E. Sears 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 Trientalis borealis Raf.Trientalis borealis Raf.1900A. P. Chute
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus Gmelin, 17891898E. PrebleMaple Meadow Brook near Wilmington, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Exosporium pusillum, not of this specimenExosporium pusillum P.Karst.1898King C. A.Stony Brook
A photograph of the species Phegopteris polypodioides, not of this specimenPhegopteris polypodioides Fée1898Chester C. KingmanReading.
A photograph of the species Podura aquatica, not of this specimenPodura aquatica C.Linnæus, 17581898not recorded
A photograph of the species Rosa nitida, not of this specimenRosa nitida Willd.1898C. H. Knowlton
A photograph of the species Antennaria howellii, not of this specimenAntennaria howellii subsp. neodioica (Greene) R.J.Bayer1899Williams, E.F.
A photograph of the species Antennaria neglecta, not of this specimenAntennaria neglecta Greene1899not recorded
A photograph of the species Aristida dichotoma, not of this specimenAristida dichotoma Michx.1899E. F. Williams
Arthrosporium compositum Ellis1899RorerEast Billerica
Araiospora pulchra Thaxt.1900Thaxter, R.Stony Brook
A photograph of the species Betula alleghaniensis, not of this specimenBetula alleghaniensis Britton1900E. F. Williams

All 472 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 Pattenville: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Titanium, Metal, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Heffron Asphalt CorpTitanium, MetalPast Producer
North Wilmington QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dynamet Tech--Burlington, Ma.TitaniumPlant
Heffron Asphalt Co--Wilmington, Ma.TitaniumPast Producer
Acme Concrete Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Benevento Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Drinkwater QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Groton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
North Wilmington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Philip DrinkwaterSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Middlesex 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
East Billerica0.6 miles41
Silver Lake2.0 miles41
Tewksbury2.2 miles41
The Pines2.5 miles41
Burtts Crossing2.5 miles41
Tewksbury Junction2.5 miles41
Billerica2.7 miles41
North Billerica3.1 miles41

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.

Wikidata item Q122546904The 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 617400. 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.