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

Valley View, Massachusetts

44 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bellingham town. It lies in ZIP code area 02019. It stands on Stall Brook. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle.

Valley View within Norfolk County

Then and now

1887 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Valley View, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Valley View, 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

93 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Valley View between 2015 and 2020, burning about 136 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism23
Recreation and ceremony12
Debris and open burning12
Smoking10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBELLINGHAM
27 September 2015Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBELLINGHAM
27 September 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBELLINGHAM
25 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBELLINGHAM
24 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlFRANKLIN
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlFRANKLIN
13 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlFRANKLIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,097 shown

Museums hold 2,097 specimens collected within 10 miles of Valley View between 1843 and 1974: 1,714 Animalia, 262 Plantae, 112 Fungi, 7 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Herz, A. B. Seymour, A. P. 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
Specimen of Hypoprepia fucosa Hübner, 1831Hypoprepia fucosa Hübner, 18311900not recordedSherborn
A photograph of the species Polygala paucifolia, not of this specimenPolygala paucifolia Willd.1843ShoreWoonsocket
A photograph of the species Grammia arge, not of this specimenGrammia arge Drury, 17731867not recordedSherborn
A photograph of the species Operophtera bruceata, not of this specimenOperophtera bruceata (Hulst, 1886)1873not recordedSherborn
A photograph of the species Nitella tenuissima, not of this specimenNitella tenuissima (Desv.) Kütz.1874Piper, S. M.
A photograph of the species Carex vestita, not of this specimenCarex vestita Willd.1875Collector unspecifiedNorfolk.
A photograph of the species Haploa clymene, not of this specimenHaploa clymene Brown, 17761875E. J. SmithSherborn
A photograph of the species Carex cryptolepis, not of this specimenCarex cryptolepis Mack.1876T. MorongAshland
A photograph of the species Carex cumulata, not of this specimenCarex cumulata (L.H.Bailey) Fernald1876T. MorongAshland
Juncus marginatus Rostk.1876T. MorongSandy bog, Ashland.
A photograph of the species Lythrum salicaria, not of this specimenLythrum salicaria L.1876T. MorongAshland
A photograph of the species Carex brevior, not of this specimenCarex brevior (Dewey) Mack. ex Lunell1877T. MorongAshland.

All 2,097 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 14 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Valley View: 11 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. 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
Castellucci and SonsGranitePast ProducerGranite
Milford Pink Granite QuarryGranitePast Producer
Bird PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Carl A MolinariSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Carl A. Molinari PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Franklin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
High Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Highway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
O A LafleurSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Richard C HillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Norfolk 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
Happy Hills0.4 miles44
North Bellingham1.0 miles44
Wethersfield1.3 miles44
Caryville1.6 miles41
Forest Park1.8 miles44
Midland2.0 miles44
Charles River Grove2.1 miles44
Bellingham2.5 miles44

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 611740. 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.