Shaker Village, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1988

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Harvard Shaker Village Historic Districtlisted 1989 · 0.2 miles away

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.

• 1893 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1935 USGS Ayer quadrangle1:24000
• 1935 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Groton quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1939 USGS Ayer quadrangle1:31680, 6 printings
• 1943 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Ayer quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1966 USGS Ayer quadrangle1:25000
• 1966 USGS Ayer quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Ayer quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1988 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Worcester County, Massachusetts : with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men., published 1889 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Shaker Village between 2013 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Brockway Corner
• East Bolton
• East Princeton
• Leominster
• Moores Corners
• North Leominster

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,068 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shaker Village between 1861 and 1974: 1,151 Animalia, 520 Plantae, 336 Fungi, 47 Protozoa, 11 Unrecorded, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. C. Gibson, A. G. Chandler 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Exidia glandulosa (Bull.) Fr.	1896	F. O. Grover	Prospect Hill
	Chrysosplenium americanum Schwein. ex Hook.	1899	E. F. Williams
	Dryobates pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)	1861	not recorded	Bolton
	Clemmys insculpta Fitzinger, 1835	1864	Agassiz
	Bromus sterilis L.	1879	C. E. Faxon
	Megascops asio asio (Linnaeus, 1758)	1879	Smith, J. C.; Thomas Wilmer Dewing collection	Groton
	Strix varia varia Barton, 1799	1880	Smith, J. C.; Thomas Wilmer Dewing collection	Groton
	unnamed	1881	Sargent, F. L.	Groton, Mass. [Massachusetts]
	Conocephalum conicum (L.) Underw.	1881	Charles W. Swan
	Hypericum gentianoides (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.	1881	Fredrick L Sargent	Lunenburg
	Icterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)	1881	G. L. Brigham	Bolton
	Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1892	G.L. Brigham	Bolton

All 2,068 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Shaker Village: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kyanite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Worcester County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 611169. 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.