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Pine Rest, 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 Rest 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 Rest, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Pine Rest, 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

76 since 1995

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Pine Rest between 1995 and 2020, burning about 130 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
5 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
19 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlFRAMINGHAM
28 August 2017Fireworksunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHUDSON
27 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHUDSON
26 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 August 2018Debris 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 847 shown

Museums hold 847 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pine Rest between 1898 and 1975: 486 Animalia, 249 Plantae, 105 Fungi, 4 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 18221900not recordedWayland
A photograph of the species Actaea pachypoda, not of this specimenActaea pachypoda Elliott1898Ernest Charles Smith
A photograph of the species Antennaria howellii, not of this specimenAntennaria howellii subsp. canadensis (Greene) R.J.Bayer1898Williams, E.F.
A photograph of the species Antennaria parlinii, not of this specimenAntennaria parlinii subsp. fallax (Greene) R.J.Bayer & Stebbins1898not recorded
A photograph of the species Antennaria plantaginifolia, not of this specimenAntennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Hook.1898not recorded
A photograph of the species Aquilegia canadensis, not of this specimenAquilegia canadensis L.1898M. I. GunnNatick
Araiospora pulchra Thaxt.1900Thaxter, RolandStony Brook, Mass. [Massachusetts]
A photograph of the species Boletus auriporus, not of this specimenBoletus auriporus Peck1900G. E. Morris
A photograph of the species Boletus rubropunctus, not of this specimenBoletus rubropunctus Peck1900G. E. Morris
A photograph of the species Buglossoides arvensis, not of this specimenBuglossoides arvensis (L.) I.M.Johnst.1900C. H. KnowltonNatick.
A photograph of the species Cephalanthus occidentalis, not of this specimenCephalanthus occidentalis L.1900M. RodmanConcord.
A photograph of the species Empria maculata, not of this specimenEmpria maculata1900C.L. Fluke

All 847 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 13 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Pine Rest: 7 past producers, 3 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Acton Pit--Assabet S & GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Arthur Scofield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Assabet Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Hudson PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Kane Corporation PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Melone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Melone Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
New England Sand & Grv Co. Pit & PlSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rich PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

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
Pine Lake1.0 miles43
Musketamquid Village1.1 miles43
Sudbury1.2 miles43
South Sudbury2.2 miles40
North Sudbury2.2 miles43
East Sudbury Station2.7 miles40
Maynard3.1 miles43
Lower Village4.0 miles43

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 Q122571905The 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 611486. 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.