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

Wendell Depot, Massachusetts

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wendell town. It lies in ZIP code area 01380. It stands on Whetstone Brook. The Survey maps it on the Orange quadrangle.

Wendell Depot within Franklin County

Then and now

1887 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wendell Depot, surveyed 1990

Topographic sheet of Wendell Depot, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

32 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

24 since 2016

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Wendell Depot between 2016 and 2020, burning about 8 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 burning	12
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
28 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
18 June 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 June 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 June 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 May 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 May 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
20 May 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,114 shown

Museums hold 1,114 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wendell Depot between 1856 and 1975: 573 Animalia, 231 Plantae, 198 Fungi, 112 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S Pease, A. Cronquist, A. M. Ottley 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
Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt	1896	Leonard, F.E.	Northfield, Mass.
Pyxine sorediata (Ach.) Mont.	1856	Charles C. Frost
Juncus pelocarpus E.Mey.	1860	E. Tuckerman	Shutesbury.
unnamed (fossil)	1867	Othniel C. Marsh	black sh, [property of T.M. Stoughton, 1871 Beers County map, previously owned by Dr. Roswell Field], S side of Connecticut River, Horse Race, Montague
Carex prasina Wahlenb.	1892	J. R. Churchill	Montague
Carex torta Boott	1892	J. R. Churchill	Montague
Rhexia virginica L.	1892	not recorded	Millers Falls
Carex plantaginea Lam.	1896	Sydney Harris	Woods near Factory Village [Note: Location found by Geolocate is in Franklin County]
Dryopteris intermedia (Muhl. ex Willd.) A.Gray	1896	Leonard, F.E.	Northfield
Cyperus lupulinus var. macilentus (Fernald) A.Haines	1899	J. A. Bates	Miller's Falls
Caliciopsis pinea Peck	1928	Hansbrough J. R.	Athol
Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1928	CL & LC Hubbs	Trib. of Miller's River, South Athol, NW border of Worcester Co., below a dam-pond, above res.; Connecticut system

All 1,114 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 16 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Wendell Depot: 8 occurrences, 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Mica, Mica, Feldspar, Feldspar, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Almandine - Garnet Occurance	Gemstone, Garnet	Occurrence	Metamorphic
Almandine-Garnet Occurance	Garnet	Occurrence
Granite Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Occurrence
Granite Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
B L Frye Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Frye Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Orange Mica Mine	Mica, Feldspar	Occurrence	1940
Orange Mica Mine	Mica, Feldspar	Occurrence
Pegmatite Quarry	Mica, Feldspar	Occurrence	Pegmatite
Pegmatite Quarry	Mica, Feldspar	Producer	Pegmatite

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms nearby

4 since 2018

The National Weather Service names Wendell Depot in 4 storm reports between 2018 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 lightning. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Wendell Depot	$100,000	A NWS Survey concluded that a microburst, with winds estimated at 90 mph, began in Erving, MA and then moved across Warwick. In Warwick, trees were down on Quarry Road and people were temporarily stranded at a campground just east of Quarry Road due to fallen trees. By far, the most extensive damage occurred on Wendell Road east of the campground and on Hockanum Road in the Hockanum Hill section of Warwick. There were more than a hundred trees downed, mainly pines. Many were snapped mid-way up and others were uprooted. Local Fire Department officials indicated that a couple of homes were hit by fallen trees on Wendell Road, one of which suffered damage to the property. Trees fell in the same direction, from southwest to northeast, indicative of straight-line winds. There were many downed power lines. Amazingly, no injuries were reported.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Wendell Depot	$3,000	In Orange, there were trees down on North Orange Rd, West Orange Rd, Wheeler Ave, and North Main Street.
August 2018	Flood	Wendell Depot	$2,000	At 5:25 PM EST, downpours near Orange caused significant street flooding, with Rocks washed onto state routes 2 and 2A west of Lyman Contractors.
July 2019	Lightning	Wendell Depot	-	A tree was struck and blown apart at a campground on Wendell Road in Franklin. Two individuals, one male and one female, who were approximately 100 yards away, were indirectly struck. They were sitting in front of their camper with a phone that was plugged in. They were transported to the hospital but there were no significant injuries.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
West Orange	1.0 miles	32
Stoneville	1.2 miles	32
Erving	2.1 miles	32
Orange	2.7 miles	32
Wendell	3.8 miles	32
Morse Village	3.8 miles	32
North New Salem	4.1 miles	32
Farley	4.2 miles	32

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122541709

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609491. 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.