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Tully, Massachusetts

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Orange town. It lies in ZIP code area 01364. It stands on Tully Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Royalston quadrangle.

Tully within Franklin 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 Tully, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Tully, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

36 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

16 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Tully between 2004 and 2020, burning about 8 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
28 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
10 August 2020Fireworks1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlTULLY MT FIRE
18 June 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 June 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
14 June 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 171 shown

Museums hold 171 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tully between 1856 and 1974: 67 Fungi, 53 Animalia, 51 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Ottley, A. S. Goodale, S.F. Potsubay, F.R. St. John, A. S. Goodale, S.F. Potsubay, F.R. St.John 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 Pyxine sorediata, not of this specimenPyxine sorediata (Ach.) Mont.1856Charles C. Frost
A photograph of the species Teucrium canadense, not of this specimenTeucrium canadense var. canadense1873not recorded
A photograph of the species Cetraria Ach., not of this specimenCetraria Ach., 18031881not recordedNorthfield
A photograph of the species Hypopitys monotropa, not of this specimenHypopitys monotropa Crantz1909not recorded
A photograph of the species Melanoleuca melaleuca, not of this specimenMelanoleuca melaleuca (Pers.) Murrill1909O. HillOrange
A photograph of the species Salix sericea, not of this specimenSalix sericea Marshall1912F. W. HunnewellThicket by roadside, Orange.
A photograph of the species Cephalozia bicuspidata, not of this specimenCephalozia bicuspidata (L.) Dumort.1913Annie LorenzRound Mountain Lake and vicinity, Massachusetts Bog and Big Alder gorge
A photograph of the species Ranunculus ambigens, not of this specimenRanunculus ambigens S.Watson1913C. SchweinfurthOn Orange Street.
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium clavariiforme, not of this specimenGymnosporangium clavariiforme (Wulfen) DC.1915Orton, C. R.Athol
A photograph of the species Caliciopsis pinea, not of this specimenCaliciopsis pinea Peck1928Hansbrough J. R.Athol
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1928CL & LC HubbsTrib. of Miller's River, South Athol, NW border of Worcester Co., below a dam-pond, above res.; Connecticut system
A photograph of the species Corticium confluens, not of this specimenCorticium confluens (Fr.) Fr.1928Hansbrough J. R.Athol

All 171 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 20 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Tully: 8 occurrences, 6 past producers, 3 producers, 3 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Mica, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Talc QuarryTalc-SoapstoneProducerMetamorphic
Talc QuarryTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Orange Mica MineMica, FeldsparOccurrence1940
Orange Mica MineMica, FeldsparOccurrence
Pegmatite QuarryMica, FeldsparOccurrencePegmatite
Pegmatite QuarryMica, FeldsparProducerPegmatite
Pegmatite QuarryMica, FeldsparPast Producer
Pegmatite QuarryMica, FeldsparPast Producer
Pegmatite QuarryMica, FeldsparPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms nearby

1 since 2018

The National Weather Service names Tully in 1 storm report between 2018 and 2018: 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2018FloodTully$100,000As reported by the Greenfield Recorder: a mass of ice broke free on the Millers River in Athol early the morning of the 13th. Additional ice broke free on the river near L. S. Starrett Company at 7 AM EST. The ice first struck the Exchange Street bridge, where hangers that secure a 10-inch water main to the bridge were swept downstream. The ice jam then migrated downstream to the South Main Street bridge, and finally downstream of this bridge to a sandbar one-half mile southwest. Flooding reached into the first floor level of homes on Canal Street. The Morton Meadows elderly housing complex was evacuated, as water came to within a few feet of the nearest building. By the end of January, this jam was flushed downstream to reform near the Orange-Athol town line, but the river was flowing through this new jam.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
North Orange0.8 miles34
Packard Heights1.0 miles36
Blissville2.8 miles34
Mayo Corners4.6 miles34
Orange4.6 miles32
Camp Warwick5.6 miles34
West Orange5.7 miles32
Warwick5.7 miles34

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609725. 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.