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

Phillipston Four Corners, Massachusetts

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Phillipston town. It lies in ZIP code area 01331. It stands on Kendall Brook. The Survey maps it on the Athol quadrangle.

Phillipston Four Corners within Worcester County

Then and now

1887 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Phillipston Four Corners, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Phillipston Four Corners, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

32 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

21 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Phillipston Four Corners between 2004 and 2020, burning about 173 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	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
24 July 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
30 June 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 June 2020	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
16 June 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
15 June 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
7 May 2015	Debris and open burning	46 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,672 shown

Museums hold 1,672 specimens collected within 10 miles of Phillipston Four Corners between 1856 and 1975: 812 Animalia, 479 Fungi, 357 Plantae, 15 Unrecorded, 9 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A., A. J. Stone, A. Melander 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
Osmunda regalis L.	1900	Bates, J.A.	Royalston.
Pyxine sorediata (Ach.) Mont.	1856	Charles C. Frost
Veronica L.	1871	not recorded
Drosera rotundifolia L.	1882	not recorded
Hemitrichia vesparia (Batsch) T.Macbr., 1899	1882	not recorded	Petersham
Linnaea borealis subsp. longiflora (Torrey) Hultén	1882	not recorded
Moneses uniflora (L.) A.Gray	1882	M. A. M.	Winchendon
Polygala paucifolia Willd.	1882	M. A. M.
Utricularia vulgaris subsp. macrorhiza (Leconte) Clausen	1886	M., K. M.
Peltandra virginica (L.) Schott	1892	A.
Rosa rubiginosa L.	1892	not recorded
Carex scoparia Schkuhr ex Willd.	1896	W. Deane

All 1,672 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Phillipston Four Corners: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica, Iron. 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
Jagger Mine	Iron	Occurrence	1845
South Royalston Mica Mine	Mica	Occurrence	Mica
South Royalston Mica Mine	Mica	Occurrence
Dines Roger Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Otter River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Templeton 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
Brooks Village	1.4 miles	33
Phillipston	1.4 miles	32
Goulding Village	2.3 miles	33
Templeton Station	2.8 miles	33
Templeton	3.6 miles	33
Baldwinville	4.0 miles	33
South Royalston	4.3 miles	36
The Street	4.6 miles	32

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 Q122552750

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 609692. 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.