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Woodville, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Hopkinton town. It lies in ZIP code area 01748. It stands on Saddle Hill. The Survey maps it on the Milford quadrangle.

Woodville within Middlesex County

Then and now

1886 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Woodville, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Woodville, surveyed 1886

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.

In the county-history sources

9,274 words on this township

History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1890 names this settlement in its chapter on Hopkinton Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

They began by bottoming boots and shoes at the village of Woodville, in the western part of the town of Hopkinton. Here they gradually acquired a knowledge of the full details of this business as then prosecuted, and in 1849, commenced ;i8 boot and shoe manufacturers in the building then known as the Joseidi Walker shop, which they rented from a man who had befriended them in the early part of their career as manufacturers. Hon. Lee Claflin, the father of Ex-Gov. - William Claflin, of Ncwtonvillc, Mass.

Passage source: History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1890.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Hopkinton Town - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

76 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Woodville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony12
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
8 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 September 2018Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
16 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 August 2020Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 466 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 466 specimens collected within 10 miles of Woodville between 1898 and 1975: 342 Animalia, 112 Plantae, 12 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Strong, Altpeter, Arthur French 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
A photograph of the species Actaea pachypoda, not of this specimenActaea pachypoda Elliott1898Ernest Charles Smith
A photograph of the species Bromus ciliatus, not of this specimenBromus ciliatus L.1898Ernest Charles SmithFramingham.
A photograph of the species Bromus secalinus, not of this specimenBromus secalinus L.1898Arthur FrenchFramingham.
A photograph of the species Carex brevior, not of this specimenCarex brevior (Dewey) Mack. ex Lunell1898Ernest Charles SmithFramingham.
A photograph of the species Carex laxiflora, not of this specimenCarex laxiflora Lam.1898Ernest Charles SmithFramingham.
A photograph of the species Carex pallescens, not of this specimenCarex pallescens L.1898Ernest Charles SmithFramingham.
A photograph of the species Carex straminea, not of this specimenCarex straminea Willd. ex Schkuhr1898Ernest Charles SmithFramingham.
A photograph of the species Carex vulgaris, not of this specimenCarex vulgaris var. hydrophila Holm1898Arthur FrenchFramingham.
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium sabulorum, not of this specimenDichanthelium sabulorum var. patulum (Scribn. & Merr.) Gould & C.A.Clark1898Ernest Charles SmithFramingham.
A photograph of the species Agonopterix atrodorsella, not of this specimenAgonopterix atrodorsella Clemens, 18631900E. J. SmithSherborn
A photograph of the species Apantesis Walker, not of this specimenApantesis Walker, 18551900E. J. SmithSherborn
A photograph of the species Apatelodes torrefacta, not of this specimenApatelodes torrefacta J.E.Smith, 17971900E. J. SmithSherborn

All 466 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Woodville: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, 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
Ashland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hopkinton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Hopkinton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hopkinton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Barretto Granite CoGranitePast ProducerGranite
H E FletcherGranitePast ProducerGranite
Milford QuarryGraniteProducer
Trimount Bituminous ProdGranitePast ProducerGranite

Every working recorded in Middlesex County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodville in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2009Thunderstorm WindWoodville$3,000A pole on Fruit Street was downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2023FloodWoodville-In Hopkinton, West Main St was flooded near I-495.

Every storm recorded in Middlesex 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
Hopkinton2.2 miles42
Hayden Row3.6 miles42
Camp Bob White5.0 miles41
Ashland5.5 miles40
Braggville6.5 miles41
Marlborough Junction6.6 miles42
Workmans Circle Camp6.7 miles41
Braggville Station6.9 miles41

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 611421. 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.