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

Perryville, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Dudley town. It lies in ZIP code area 01571. It stands on Potash Brook. The Survey maps it on the Webster quadrangle.

Perryville within Worcester County

Then and now

1889 to 1989

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.

Topographic sheet of Perryville, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Perryville, surveyed 1889

Topographic sheets covering this place

42 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

41 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Perryville between 2007 and 2020, burning about 16 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConnecticut Division of Forestry1405 RIVERSIDE DR, THOMPSON
26 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConnecticut Division of Forestry18 WILSONVILLE RD, THOMPSON
25 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 June 2016Smokingunder 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 379 shown

Museums hold 379 specimens collected within 10 miles of Perryville between 1875 and 1973: 191 Animalia, 148 Plantae, 27 Fungi, 10 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. S. Pease, Allen, R. M., Anonymous 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 Coccyzus erythropthalmus, not of this specimenCoccyzus erythropthalmus (A.Wilson, 1811)1875Francois Hue
A photograph of the species Sterna dougallii, not of this specimenSterna dougallii dougallii Montagu, 18131875Towne, E B, JrMassachusetts
A photograph of the species Sterna paradisaea, not of this specimenSterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 17631875Towne, E B, JrMassachusetts
A photograph of the species Calypso bulbosa, not of this specimenCalypso bulbosa (L.) Oakes1878F.H. Hosford
A photograph of the species Didymium melanospermum, not of this specimenDidymium melanospermum (Pers.) T.Macbr., 18991883Farlow, W.G.
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1887J. R. RabbittMASSACHUSETTS: Tarriton
A photograph of the species Catharus guttatus, not of this specimenCatharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921)1888not recordedOxford
A photograph of the species Diphyscium foliosum, not of this specimenDiphyscium foliosum (Hedw.) D.Mohr1888Anonymous
Sterna hirundo hirundo Linnaeus, 17581892Babbitt, J PMassachusetts
Accipiter striatus Vieillot, 18081894not recordedMASSACHUSETTS: Ponkahog
Ammodramus caudacutus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)1896W. J. WirtMASSACHUSETTS: North Town
Hemitrichia stipata (Schwein.) T.Macbr., 18991896Olive, E. W.Hammond's Pond

All 379 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 Perryville: 10 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
New Haven Traprock Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Charlton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Leo Construction CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Minarik PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Minarik PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sunny Shores, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thompson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Thompson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Webster Dudley Sand and Gravel IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Webster PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Worcester 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
Fennerville0.9 miles42
Chaseville1.2 miles42
Merino Village (historical)1.7 miles42
Merino Village1.7 miles42
Webster1.8 miles42
Sunnyside2.6 miles42
Loveland2.6 miles43
Dudley2.6 miles42

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 610254. 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.