Westville, Massachusetts

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.

1887 1985

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.

• 1887 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1890 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1915 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1921 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1945 USGS Southbridge quadrangle1:31680
• 1945 USGS Southbridge quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1952 USGS Southbridge quadrangle1:31680
• 1952 USGS Southbridge quadrangle1:24000
• 1952 USGS Southbridge quadrangle1:24000
• 1952 USGS Southbridge quadrangle1:31680
• 1952 USGS Southbridge quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Southbridge quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Southbridge quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Southbridge quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Southbridge quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Southbridge quadrangle1:25000
• 1967 USGS Southbridge quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Southbridge quadrangle1:25000
• 1982 USGS Southbridge quadrangle1:25000
• 1982 USGS Southbridge quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Westville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 2 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.

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:

• Globe Village
• Old Sturbridge Village
• Robinson Crusoe Camp
• Southbridge
• Sturbridge
• Sandersdale

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Museums hold 316 specimens collected within 10 miles of Westville between 1874 and 1975: 167 Plantae, 80 Animalia, 67 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Hodgdon; L. B. Smith, A. R. Hodgdon; F. L. Steele, A. R. Hodgdon; L. B. Smith 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
	Carex tenera var. tenera	1899	R. M. Harper
	Nitella megacarpa (T.F.A.) R.D.W.	1874	Piper, S. M.
	Sphagnum tenellum (Schimp.) H.Klinggr.	1889	Edwin Faxon	Hammond's Pond
	Gavia immer (Brunnich, 1764)	1890	Jones, Clinton Mellen	Southbridge
	Parmotrema perforatum (Jacq.) A.Massal.	1890	G. E. Stone	Webster
	Trichia contorta (Ditmar) Rostaf., 1875	1890	Harvey, F. L.
	Diphyscium foliosum (Hedw.) D.Mohr	1891	Lucien M. Underwood
	Lycaenidae	1894	not recorded
	Cirsium muticum Michx.	1897	E. L. Morris	Charlton
	Juncus tenuis Willd.	1897	E. L. Morris	Charlton
	Apocynum androsaemifolium L.	1898	E. L. Morris	Wales
	Asclepias purpurascens L.	1898	E. L. Morris	Wales

All 316 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Westville: 7 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Graphite. 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 Worcester 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 610170. 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.