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

Pine Lake, Massachusetts

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sudbury town. It lies in ZIP code area 01776. It stands on Run Brook. The Survey maps it on the Maynard quadrangle.

Pine Lake within Middlesex County

Then and now

1886 to 1989

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Pine Lake, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Pine Lake, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

43 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.

In the 1908 county history

18,007 words on this township

The county history of 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Sudbury Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Sudbury Town - 18,007 words.

Fires nearby

74 since 1995

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Pine Lake between 1995 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	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
5 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
28 August 2019	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
28 August 2017	Fireworks	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HUDSON
27 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	HUDSON
26 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 893 shown

Museums hold 893 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pine Lake between 1898 and 1975: 597 Animalia, 215 Plantae, 76 Fungi, 2 Chromista, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & M. D. Feigley, A. F. Newton 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
Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822	1900	not recorded	Wayland
Actaea pachypoda Elliott	1898	Ernest Charles Smith
Aquilegia canadensis L.	1898	M. I. Gunn	Natick
Boletus griseus Frost	1898	H. Webster
Bromus ciliatus L.	1898	Ernest Charles Smith	Framingham.
Bromus secalinus L.	1898	Arthur French	Framingham.
Carex brevior (Dewey) Mack. ex Lunell	1898	Ernest Charles Smith	Framingham.
Carex laxiflora Lam.	1898	Ernest Charles Smith	Framingham.
Carex pallescens L.	1898	Ernest Charles Smith	Framingham.
Araiospora pulchra Thaxt.	1900	Thaxter, Roland	Stony Brook, Mass. [Massachusetts]
Boletus auriporus Peck	1900	G. E. Morris
Boletus rubropunctus Peck	1900	G. E. Morris

All 893 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 12 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Pine Lake: 6 past producers, 4 producers, 2 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Acton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Acton Pit--Assabet S & G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Acton Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Assabet Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Hudson Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Kane Corporation Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lexington Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Melone Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Melone Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Rich Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pine Rest	1.0 miles	43
Musketamquid Village	2.1 miles	43
Sudbury	2.2 miles	43
Maynard	2.6 miles	43
North Sudbury	2.8 miles	43
Lower Village	3.1 miles	43
South Sudbury	3.1 miles	40
East Sudbury Station	3.7 miles	40

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 611485. 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.