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

South Village, Massachusetts

44 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Ashby town. It lies in ZIP code area 01431. The Survey maps it on the Ashby quadrangle.

South Village within Middlesex 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 South Village, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of South Village, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

44 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

25 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of South Village between 2012 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Fireworks3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
2 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 August 2015Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 July 2016Fireworks3.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 July 2016Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
26 July 2016Fireworks3.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 July 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 July 2016Fireworks3.0 acresMassachusetts 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 43 shown

Museums hold 43 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Village between 1926 and 1970: 29 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. N. Gates, C. M. Litch, CL & LC Hubbs 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
A photograph of the species Anavitrinella pampinaria, not of this specimenAnavitrinella pampinaria (Guenée, 1857)1926not recordedLunenburg
A photograph of the species Catocala ilia, not of this specimenCatocala ilia Cramer1927not recordedLunenburg
A photograph of the species Dasyscyphus calycinus, not of this specimenDasyscyphus calycinus (Schumach.) Fuckel1927Howard; Hansbrough J. R.Lunenburg
A photograph of the species Euphagus carolinus, not of this specimenEuphagus carolinus carolinus (Statius Muller, 1776)1927Edward FullerFitchburg, near
A photograph of the species Pyreferra hesperidago, not of this specimenPyreferra hesperidago Guenée, 18521927not recordedLunenburg
unnamed1928Hansbrough J. R.Lunenburg
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1928CL & LC HubbsWhitman River, 3 mi SW of W Fitchburg, at crossing of State Road 2; trib of Merrimack R.
A photograph of the species Esox niger, not of this specimenEsox niger Lesueur, 18181928CL & LC HubbsWhitman River, 3 mi SW of W Fitchburg, at crossing of State Road 2; trib of Merrimack R.
A photograph of the species Hemiteles Gravenhorst, not of this specimenHemiteles Gravenhorst, 18291928[Not Stated]Lunenburg
A photograph of the species Hemaris thysbe, not of this specimenHemaris thysbe Fabricius, 17751930not recordedLunenburg
A photograph of the species Corydalis sempervirens, not of this specimenCorydalis sempervirens (L.) Pers.1950J. W. SpaldingPrinceton; S slope of Mt. Wachusett.
A photograph of the species Salix sericea, not of this specimenSalix sericea Marshall1950B. N. GatesBordering Leominster water supply; Fitchburg.

All 43 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of South Village: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
R L RobichaudSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Raymond HeywoodSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Raymond Heywood Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Robert L. Robichard PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ashby0.8 miles44
Rogersville (historical)3.7 miles44
West Townsend4.5 miles42
Old City5.4 miles42
Townsend6.3 miles42
South Row6.8 miles42
Townsend Harbor8.2 miles42
Vose10.8 miles44

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 610277. 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.