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

Woodside, Massachusetts

44 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Northborough town. It lies in ZIP code area 01532. It stands on Edmund Hill. The Survey maps it on the Shrewsbury quadrangle.

Woodside within Worcester County

Then and now

1887 to 1989

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.

Topographic sheet of Woodside, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Woodside, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

44 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

98 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Woodside between 2015 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Recreation and ceremony14
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
7 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMARLBORO
28 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
16 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
14 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
12 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
11 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMARLBORO
1 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMARLBORO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,198 shown

Museums hold 1,198 specimens collected within 10 miles of Woodside between 1858 and 1975: 450 Animalia, 415 Plantae, 321 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded, 4 Chromista, 4 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A E WOODHEAD, A. G. Chandler, A. H. Chivers 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 Chrysosplenium americanum Schwein. ex Hook.Chrysosplenium americanum Schwein. ex Hook.1899E. F. Williams
Specimen of Sceptridium dissectum (Spreng.) LyonSceptridium dissectum (Spreng.) Lyon1899H. H. Scudder
A photograph of the species Quercus velutina, not of this specimenQuercus velutina Lam.1858E. S. HoarRoad to Marlboro, Concord.
A photograph of the species Condylura cristata, not of this specimenCondylura cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1859E S WheelerBERLIN
A photograph of the species Dryobates pubescens, not of this specimenDryobates pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)1861not recordedBolton
A photograph of the species Clemmys insculpta, not of this specimenClemmys insculpta Fitzinger, 18351864Agassiz
A photograph of the species Puccinia polygoni-amphibii, not of this specimenPuccinia polygoni-amphibii Pers.1875Clark A.Sunderland
A photograph of the species Leucophaeus atricilla, not of this specimenLeucophaeus atricilla (Linnaeus, 1758)1876Collector(s): unknownNo specific locality recorded.
A photograph of the species Botrychium matricariifolium, not of this specimenBotrychium matricariifolium (Döll) A.Braun ex Koch1878Miss Estabrook
A photograph of the species Carex complanata, not of this specimenCarex complanata Torr. & Hook.1878not recordedWorcester
A photograph of the species Carex cristatella, not of this specimenCarex cristatella Britton1878T. E. N. EatonWorcester
Arphia sulphurea (Fabricius, 1781)1892unknownWellesley

All 1,198 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 12 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Woodside: 9 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, 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
Berlin Stone Co QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Gneiss QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bates Sand and Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Berin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Berlin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Berlin Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
C and M EnterprisesSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
E L Dauphanis IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
E. L. Dauphinais, IncorporatedSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Haynes 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
Chapinville0.5 miles42
Northborough1.0 miles44
South Berlin2.1 miles44
Wessonville3.0 miles44
Berlin3.6 miles43
Carterville4.1 miles43
Westborough4.2 miles42
West Berlin4.3 miles43

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 610937. 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.