Stoneville, Massachusetts

44 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Auburn town. It lies in ZIP code area 01501. It stands on Dark Brook. The Survey maps it on the Worcester South quadrangle.

Stoneville within Worcester County

Then and now

1889 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stoneville, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Stoneville, surveyed 1889

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 surveys from 44 printed 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.

1889 USGS Webster quadrangle1:62500
1892 USGS Webster quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
1908 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1921 USGS Webster quadrangle1:62500
1935 USGS Millbury quadrangle1:24000
1939 USGS Worcester South quadrangle1:31680, 4 printings
1943 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Worcester South quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Worcester South quadrangle1:31680
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Worcester South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Worcester South quadrangle1:25000
1973 USGS Worcester South quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Worcester South quadrangle1:25000
1983 USGS Worcester South quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

5,419 words on this township

History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, published 1889 names this settlement in its chapter on Auburn Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Cross. From its broad plateau one gets a fine view of Stoneville, Leicester steeples on the western horizon, Millbury, Grafton and Shrewsbury, Mt. Asnebumskitand blue Wachusett. Grassy Hill bordersou West Millbury, Prospect Hill stretches from West Auburn across the Oxford line. Growl and Beer's Hills rise in the northwest corner. We find our Auburn not the "loveliest village of the plain." The population is fairly distributed, the factory precinct of Stoneville being the more thickly built up. Pondville lies east of the centre. The inhabitants generally are farmers whose great barns show the tons of hay produced and the quantity of stock raised. Towns adjacent have a larger territory and population, and, with the exception of Millbury, a more ancient record. Our history narrates the origin, the doings and the present condition of an average New England rural community.

Passage source: History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, published 1889.

The Roman Catholic Church at Stoneville began as a mission in 1870. It is now under the pastoral supervision of Father Boylen, who lives in Oxford. They have a neat sanctuary on the hill, with a fine view of the Holy Cross College in Worcester, distant less than two miles.

Passage source: History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, published 1889.

A school of a higher grade was held in the fall of 1875, whose pupils enjoyed the thorough instruction in High School studies of a Yale graduate, resident still in town. We have two hundred and forty children between five and fifteeu years old, six schooldistricts, with seven schools ; the Stoneville building, erected in 1872, housing two schools, with an annual appropriation of $1,300, added to which is the State school fund and the dog- tax.

Passage source: History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, published 1889.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Auburn Town.

Fires near this place

67 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Stoneville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	21
Smoking	15
Recreation and ceremony	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
26 August 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
6 July 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 June 2020	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 Worcester County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,654 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,654 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stoneville between 1839 and 1974: 989 Plantae, 377 Animalia, 265 Fungi, 16 Unrecorded, 5 Protozoa, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A E WOODHEAD, A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour 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
Sceptridium dissectum (Spreng.) Lyon	1899	H. H. Scudder
Ochrolechia tartarea (L.) A.Massal.	1839	E. Tuckerman
Carex laxiflora Lam.	1840	Thomas Nuttall	Cambridge.
Carex vestita Willd.	1840	Thomas Nuttall	Cambridge.
Mycobilimbia hypnorum (Lib.) Kalb & Hafellner	1848	E. Tuckerman
Cladonia cornucopioides F.Wilson	1850	J. L. Russell	Leicester
Geranium maculatum L.	1850	not recorded
Packera aurea (L.) Á.Löve & D.Löve	1850	not recorded
Carex aperta Boott	1853	W. Boott	Massachusetts
Elymus repens (L.) Gould	1892	Arthur B. Seymour	Cambridge.
Festuca pratensis Huds.	1892	Arthur B. Seymour	Cambridge.
Hepatica americana (DC.) Ker Gawl.	1892	Clarence Kinney

All 1,654 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Stoneville: 9 past producers, 3 producers, 2 plants. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Lead. 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
Bd Bloomfield Co--Worcester, Ma.	Lead	Plant
Crucible Spec. Metals--Auburn, Ma.	Iron	Plant
30 Southwest Cutoff Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Auburn Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Capa Corporation	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Crossover Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Donald P Graves Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Highway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lind Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Oxford Quarry Plant #8	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Worcester 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
Jamesville (historical)	0.9 miles	44
Drury Square	0.9 miles	44
Heard Street	1.0 miles	44
Woodland Park	1.0 miles	44
Jamesville	1.4 miles	44
Ludlow	1.6 miles	44
Auburn	1.6 miles	44
Valley Falls (historical)	1.7 miles	44

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 610699. 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.