West Village, Massachusetts

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.

1886 1988

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.

• 1886 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Reading quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Reading quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1951 USGS Reading quadrangle1:24000
• 1951 USGS Reading quadrangle1:31680
• 1951 USGS Reading quadrangle1:31680
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Reading quadrangle1:25000
• 1966 USGS Reading quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Reading quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Reading quadrangle1:25000
• 1987 USGS Reading quadrangle1:25000
• 1988 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of West Village between 2003 and 2020, burning about 22 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• North Reading
• North Wilmington
• Reading Highlands
• Wilmington Junction
• Billerica
• Burtts Crossing

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Museums hold 643 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Village between 1898 and 1975: 291 Plantae, 290 Animalia, 45 Fungi, 8 Bacteria, 6 Unrecorded, 3 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A B. Proper, A. E. Sears, A. F. Newton 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Trientalis borealis Raf.	1900	A. P. Chute
	Cantharellus infundibuliformis (Scop.) Fr.	1898	not recorded	Melrose.
	Cordyceps capitata (Holmsk.) Link	1898	Conant, [?] F.	Middlesex Fells
	Esox americanus Gmelin, 1789	1898	E. Preble	Maple Meadow Brook near Wilmington, Massachusetts
	Euglena Ehrenberg, 1830	1898	F. S. Collins	Valley St., pool
	Gloeocystis rupestris (Lyngb.) Rabenh.	1898	F. S. Collins	Pine Banks Park, on wet perpendicular cliff
	Gloeocystis vesiculosa Nägeli	1898	F. S. Collins	Pine Banks Park, on wet perpendicular cliff
	Lentinus tigrinus (Bull.) Fr.	1898	J. F. Conant	Middlesex Fells.
	Oedogonium borisianum (Le Clerk) Wittr.	1898	F. S. Collins	Pine Banks Park, in roadside pool
	Aphanochaete repens A.Braun	1900	F. S. Collins	Middlesex Fells, Wright's Pond, on Oedogonium, etc.
	Batrachospermum gelatinosum (L.) DC.	1900	F.S. Collins	Malden
	Batrachospermum moniliforme Sirodot	1900	F. S. Collins	Malden, MA

All 643 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of West Village: 8 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Titanium, Metal, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Middlesex County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612848. 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.