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West Dudley, 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 Blackmer Hill. The Survey maps it on the Webster quadrangle.

West Dudley 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 West Dudley, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of West Dudley, 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

35 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of West Dudley between 2015 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism2
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
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
23 August 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 June 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
19 June 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 372 shown

Museums hold 372 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Dudley between 1874 and 1975: 190 Animalia, 116 Plantae, 62 Fungi, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Hodgdon; F. L. Steele, B. N. Gates, B. N. Gates & F. C. 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
Nitella megacarpa (T.F.A.) R.D.W.1874Piper, S. M.
A photograph of the species Coccyzus erythropthalmus, not of this specimenCoccyzus erythropthalmus (A.Wilson, 1811)1875Francois Hue
A photograph of the species Catharus guttatus, not of this specimenCatharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921)1888not recordedOxford
A photograph of the species Gavia immer, not of this specimenGavia immer (Brunnich, 1764)1890Jones, Clinton MellenSouthbridge
A photograph of the species Parmotrema perforatum, not of this specimenParmotrema perforatum (Jacq.) A.Massal.1890G. E. StoneWebster
A photograph of the species Trichia contorta, not of this specimenTrichia contorta (Ditmar) Rostaf., 18751890Harvey, F. L.
A photograph of the species Diphyscium foliosum, not of this specimenDiphyscium foliosum (Hedw.) D.Mohr1891Lucien M. Underwood
Lycaenidae1894not recorded
A photograph of the species Cirsium muticum, not of this specimenCirsium muticum Michx.1897E. L. MorrisCharlton
A photograph of the species Juncus tenuis, not of this specimenJuncus tenuis Willd.1897E. L. MorrisCharlton
A photograph of the species Alyssum alyssoides, not of this specimenAlyssum alyssoides (L.) L.1899R. M. Harper
Carex hystericina Muhl. ex Willd.1899R. M. HarperSouthbridge.

All 372 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of West Dudley: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Charlton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ciesla Brothers IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Ciesla PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Landfill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thompson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Thompson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Town of SouthbridgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Worcester County

Storms nearby

3 since 2017

The National Weather Service names West Dudley in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindWest Dudley$2,000At 430 PM EST, two large trees were down on Lempicki Road in Dudley.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindWest Dudley$500In Dudley, there was a large tree down on Blackmere Rd.
July 2017FloodWest Dudley-At 538 PM EST, West Main Street in Dudley was flooded and impassable near the Connecticut State Line. Also, Southbridge Road near near the Connecticut State Line was also flooded and impassable. Also, at 626 PM EST Center Road was flooded and impassable.

Every storm 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
Sandersdale2.1 miles39
Dudley2.8 miles42
Cardinal Heights2.9 miles42
Tufts Village (historical)3.1 miles42
Southbridge3.2 miles39
Globe Village4.2 miles39
Westville4.4 miles39
Chaseville4.6 miles42

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 Q122540150The 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 610300. 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.