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

West Rutland, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Rutland town. It lies in ZIP code area 01543. It stands on Barrack Hill. The Survey maps it on the Paxton quadrangle.

West Rutland within Worcester County

Then and now

1885 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 104 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 Rutland, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of West Rutland, surveyed 1885

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

38 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of West Rutland between 2015 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. None 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 burning26
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
1 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 July 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 July 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
18 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts 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 719 shown

Museums hold 719 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Rutland between 1839 and 1974: 350 Plantae, 261 Animalia, 105 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. V. Schott, A.B. Seymour, A.P. Morse 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 Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.1895James F. CollinsSouth spur, Mount Wachusett
Specimen of Pooecetes gramineus gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)Pooecetes gramineus gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1900Roscoe I. Giles
A photograph of the species Bartramia pomiformis, not of this specimenBartramia pomiformis Hedw.1839unknownBarre
A photograph of the species Carex gracillima, not of this specimenCarex gracillima Schwein.1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Carex intumescens, not of this specimenCarex intumescens Rudge1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Carex lacustris, not of this specimenCarex lacustris Willd.1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Carex stipata, not of this specimenCarex stipata Muhl. ex Willd.1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Cirsium arvense, not of this specimenCirsium arvense (L.) Scop.1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Cypripedium acaule, not of this specimenCypripedium acaule Aiton1839M. S. BebbBarre
A photograph of the species Moneses uniflora, not of this specimenMoneses uniflora (L.) A.Gray1893J. F. Collins
A photograph of the species Aquilegia canadensis, not of this specimenAquilegia canadensis L.1894H. E. GreenwoodHolden
A photograph of the species Chrysosplenium americanum, not of this specimenChrysosplenium americanum Schwein. ex Hook.1894H. E. Greenwood

All 719 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of West Rutland: 3 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Holden Trap RockStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Holden Trap Rock CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Highway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Intervale PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Landfill 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
White Hall1.2 miles42
Turkey Hill Shores2.2 miles42
Rutland2.2 miles42
Sandy Beach2.7 miles42
New Boston3.0 miles46
Oakham3.1 miles32
North Spencer3.6 miles42
Coldbrook Springs4.0 miles31

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 617851. 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.