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

West Warren, Massachusetts

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Warren town. It lies in ZIP code area 01092. It stands on School Street Brook. The Survey maps it on the Warren quadrangle.

West Warren within Worcester County

Then and now

1887 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 98 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 Warren, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of West Warren, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

34 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

43 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of West Warren between 2015 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Recreation and ceremony	8
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
10 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 June 2015	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
27 June 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 June 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 May 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 May 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 269 shown

Museums hold 269 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Warren between 1857 and 1975: 153 Plantae, 64 Animalia, 52 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. F. Hill, H. St. John, G.S. Torrey, A. Lavallee 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
Carex tenera var. tenera	1899	R. M. Harper
Krigia virginica (L.) Willd.	1857	not recorded
Carex cephalophora Muhl. ex Willd.	1858	J. Blake
Carex vestita Willd.	1858	J. Blake	Ware
Castilleja coccinea (L.) Spreng.	1858	A. P. Chute
Celastrus scandens L.	1858	s.coll.
Ranunculus flabellaris Raf.	1858	A. P. Chute
Trifolium agrarium L.	1858	not recorded
Zizia aurea (L.) W.D.J.Koch	1859	A. P. Chute
Dendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1882	G.L.	Warren
Nitella megacarpa (T.F.A.) R.D.W.	1894	G. E. Stern	Lake Lashaway
Calosoma calidum (Fabricius, 1775)	1896	Knab, Frederick (1865-1918)	Massachusetts

All 269 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of West Warren: 4 producers, 4 past producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
A Giard and Sons	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
B and C Gravel Company	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bond Washed Sand and Stone	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cemetery Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
E W Sykes Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lizak's Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Tobias Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ware Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ware Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant

Every working recorded in Worcester County

Storms nearby

7 since 2000

The National Weather Service names West Warren in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	West Warren	$2,000	In Warren large trees were down on wires on Main St, Ware Rd, and Dean St.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	West Warren	$500	In Warren, a tree was down on Santos Road.
July 2021	Flood	West Warren	-	In West Warren, a portion of Chapel Street was flooded and impassable.
July 2021	Flood	West Warren	-	In Warren, Ware Road at Main Street was flooded and impassable. Probably had to do with the School Street Brook. Also the area around 1300 Main Street was flooded.
June 2010	Hail	West Warren	-	Quarter sized hail fell along Main Street.
September 2002	Heavy Rain	West Warren	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	West Warren	-	no account filed

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Warren	2.3 miles	34
Marks Garrison	4.3 miles	34
West Brookfield	5.2 miles	34
Brookfield	7.0 miles	33
Gilbertville	7.0 miles	30
North Brookfield	8.9 miles	32
New Braintree	9.2 miles	30
Fiskdale	9.3 miles	39

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609867. 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.