South Royalston, Massachusetts

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.

1887 1988

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.

• 1887 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
• 1890 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
• 1932 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:48000
• 1935 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Keene quadrangle1:125000
• 1946 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:31680
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:24000
• 1971 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:25000
• 1971 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:25000
• 1971 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:24000
• 1971 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Royalston quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:25000
• 1988 USGS Winchendon quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of South Royalston between 2004 and 2020, burning about 171 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.

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:

• Camp Caravan
• The Street
• Athol
• Parkers Station
• Partridgeville
• Phillipston Four Corners

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Museums hold 615 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Royalston between 1856 and 1975: 268 Plantae, 183 Animalia, 159 Fungi, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A., A. F. Newton, A. J. Stone 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
	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
	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.
	Vaccinium macrocarpon Aiton	1886	not recorded
	Peltandra virginica (L.) Schott	1892	A.
	Rosa rubiginosa L.	1892	not recorded
	Carex scoparia Schkuhr ex Willd.	1896	W. Deane

All 615 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of South Royalston: 3 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica, Feldspar, Feldspar. 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 National Weather Service names South Royalston in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm 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.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609714. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.