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

Sunnyside, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Dudley town. It lies in ZIP code area 01571. It stands on Mill Brook. The Survey maps it on the Webster quadrangle.

Sunnyside 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 Sunnyside, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Sunnyside, surveyed 1889

Topographic sheets covering this place

42 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

65 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Sunnyside between 2007 and 2020, burning about 30 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 burning24
Recreation and ceremony13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2

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
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConnecticut Division of Forestry1405 RIVERSIDE DR, THOMPSON
26 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConnecticut Division of Forestry18 WILSONVILLE RD, THOMPSON
25 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 444 shown

Museums hold 444 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sunnyside between 1857 and 1975: 211 Animalia, 175 Plantae, 45 Fungi, 10 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. S. Pease, 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Hyla versicolor, not of this specimenHyla versicolor LeConte, 18251857Weinland, David Friedrich
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361859not recorded
A photograph of the species Pseudacris crucifer, not of this specimenPseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)1859Weinland, David Friedrich
A photograph of the species Rana pipiens, not of this specimenRana pipiens Schreber, 17821859Weinland, David Friedrich
A photograph of the species Rana sylvatica, not of this specimenRana sylvatica LeConte, 18251859Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe
A photograph of the species Notophthalmus viridescens, not of this specimenNotophthalmus viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)1860Agassiz
A photograph of the species Clemmys insculpta, not of this specimenClemmys insculpta Fitzinger, 18351864Salmin
A photograph of the species Clemmys guttata, not of this specimenClemmys guttata (Schneider, 1792)1869Salmin
A photograph of the species Coccyzus erythropthalmus, not of this specimenCoccyzus erythropthalmus (A.Wilson, 1811)1875Francois Hue
Sterna hirundo hirundo Linnaeus, 17581892Babbitt, J PMassachusetts
Accipiter striatus Vieillot, 18081894not recordedMASSACHUSETTS: Ponkahog
Ammodramus caudacutus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)1896W. J. WirtMASSACHUSETTS: North Town

All 444 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 17 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Sunnyside: 15 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
New Haven Traprock Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Charlton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Highway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Leo Construction CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Minarik PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Minarik PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Old Webster Road PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ricciardi Asphalt CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Robbins Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Southbridge PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Merino Village0.9 miles42
Merino Village (historical)0.9 miles42
Webster0.9 miles42
East Village1.2 miles43
Chaseville1.6 miles42
Fennerville1.7 miles42
Grand View Estates2.0 miles42
Cardinal Heights2.4 miles42

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 610282. 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.