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

18 surveys from 42 printed 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.

1889 USGS Webster quadrangle1:62500
1892 USGS Webster quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
1908 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1921 USGS Webster quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000
1945 USGS Webster quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Webster quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Webster quadrangle1:31680
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Webster quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1969 USGS Webster quadrangle1:25000
1975 USGS Webster quadrangle1:25000
1982 USGS Webster quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

7,816 words on this township

History of Worcester County, Massachusetts : with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men., published 1889 names this settlement in its chapter on Dudley Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

On the same stream in the southeast part of the town is Perryville, named in honor of the Perry family, which has held its possessions upwards of a century. Mr. Josiah Perry purchased land and settled here in 1775. In the year 1825 his sons, Joseph H. and Richard Perry, and two associates, built a log dam, erected suitable buildings and machinery and commenced the manufacture of satinet. In 1832 Richard withdrew and built a carding and spinningmill upon a side privilege a short <listance away, ever since known as the Perry Stocking- Yarn Factory, and is now used for the manufacture of yarns for rubber-shoe linings. The business is carried on by a grandson, Lemuel Perry, and the present year the plant was increased to double its former capacity. Both of these establishments are now owned by Josiah, a .son of Joseph H. During the past few years the business has been considerably extended, and modern and improved machinery for making a higher class of goods has been introduced. The works since they were established have been developed eight-fold.

Passage source: History of Worcester County, Massachusetts : with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men., published 1889.

Joseph H. Perry, the founder of the manufacturing interest in Perryville, Dudley, Mass., was born September 12, 1789, in Thompson, Ct., on the farm of his father, which lay partly in Thompson and partly in Dudley. He was the youngest son of Josiah Perry, a native of Watertown, Mass., who removed thence in early manhood to Foxboro', Mass., and removed about the year 1775 to the farm just mentioned.

Passage source: History of Worcester County, Massachusetts : with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men., 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 Dudley Town.

Fires near this place

116 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Perryville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 272 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	59
Debris and open burning	23
Recreation and ceremony	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
22 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Connecticut Division of Forestry	11 HOLMES STREET
19 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Connecticut Division of Forestry	1017 RIVERSIDE DRIVE
19 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Connecticut Division of Forestry	1175 RIVERSIDE DRIVE
8 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
6 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 August 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Connecticut Division of Forestry	not named
22 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
2 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Connecticut Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 379 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Coccyzus erythropthalmus (A.Wilson, 1811)	1875	Francois Hue
Sterna dougallii dougallii Montagu, 1813	1875	Towne, E B, Jr	Massachusetts
Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763	1875	Towne, E B, Jr	Massachusetts
Calypso bulbosa (L.) Oakes	1878	F.H. Hosford
Didymium melanospermum (Pers.) T.Macbr., 1899	1883	Farlow, W.G.
Vireo olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1887	J. R. Rabbitt	MASSACHUSETTS: Tarriton
Catharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921)	1888	not recorded	Oxford
Diphyscium foliosum (Hedw.) D.Mohr	1888	Anonymous
Sterna hirundo hirundo Linnaeus, 1758	1892	Babbitt, J P	Massachusetts
Accipiter striatus Vieillot, 1808	1894	not recorded	MASSACHUSETTS: Ponkahog
Ammodramus caudacutus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)	1896	W. J. Wirt	MASSACHUSETTS: North Town
Hemitrichia stipata (Schwein.) T.Macbr., 1899	1896	Olive, E. W.	Hammond's Pond

All 379 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Perryville: 14 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
New Haven Traprock Co. Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Charlton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Janeczek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Janeczek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kappys Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kaprys Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Leo Construction Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Minarik Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Minarik Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sunny Shores, Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fennerville	0.9 miles	42
Chaseville	1.2 miles	42
Merino Village (historical)	1.7 miles	42
Merino Village	1.7 miles	42
Webster	1.8 miles	42
Sunnyside	2.6 miles	42
Loveland	2.6 miles	43
Dudley	2.6 miles	42

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.