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

Worthington Center, Massachusetts

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Worthington town. It lies in ZIP code area 01098. It stands on West Hill. The Survey maps it on the Worthington quadrangle.

Worthington Center within Hampshire County

Then and now

1886 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 111 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Worthington Center, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Worthington Center, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

35 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Jonathan Woodbridge House, Four Corners, Worthington Center, Hampshire County, MA
Jonathan Woodbridge House, Four Corners, Worthington Center, Hampshire County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

4 since 2018

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Worthington Center between 2018 and 2020, burning about 1 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
10 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 444 shown

Museums hold 444 specimens collected within 10 miles of Worthington Center between 1822 and 1975: 287 Animalia, 82 Plantae, 74 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gurney, A. K. Harrison, A. M. Rogers 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 Buellia disciformis (Fr.) MuddBuellia disciformis (Fr.) Mudd1900George P. ClintonHammond Pond
Specimen of Graphis scripta (L.) Ach.Graphis scripta (L.) Ach.1900George P. ClintonHammond Pond
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylloidea, not of this specimenPorella platyphylloidea (Schwein.) Lindb.1822EmmonsNorwich
A photograph of the species Veratrum viride, not of this specimenVeratrum viride subsp. viride1847not recordedBrunswick and Goshen
A photograph of the species Halenia deflexa, not of this specimenHalenia deflexa (Sm.) Griseb.1868Collector(s): Henry Griswold JesupCummington
A photograph of the species Lygodium palmatum, not of this specimenLygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.1872Miller, E.S.East Hampton
A photograph of the species Botrychium matricariifolium, not of this specimenBotrychium matricariifolium (Döll) A.Braun ex Koch1873H. G. Jesup
Botrychium virginianum subsp. typicum R.T.Clausen1873Jesup, H.G.Goshen.
A photograph of the species Phegopteris connectilis, not of this specimenPhegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt1873H. G. Jesup
A photograph of the species Botrychium lanceolatum, not of this specimenBotrychium lanceolatum (S.G.Gmel.) Ångstr.1874H. G. Jesup
A photograph of the species Leucobryum glaucum, not of this specimenLeucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ångstr.1877H. J. BiddlecomeChester
A photograph of the species Dendroica discolor, not of this specimenDendroica discolor discolor (Vieillot, 1809)1890C. H. WatrousChester

All 444 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 14 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Worthington Center: 5 occurrences, 4 producers, 4 past producers, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Lithium, Talc-Soapstone, Emery, Quartz. 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
Northern Chester Emery MineEmeryOccurrenceEmery
Whetstone QuarryQuartzProducerQuartz
Whetstone QuarryStonePast Producer
Middlefield ProspectsTalc-SoapstoneOccurrence
Soapstone QuarryTalc-SoapstoneProducerMetamorphic
Talc OccuranceTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceMetamorphic
Talc OccurrenceTalc-SoapstoneOccurrence
Clark Ledge Lithia MineLithiumProducerFeldspar
Clark Ledge Lithia MineLithiumPast Producer
Mac Comber Ledge Lithia MineLithiumOccurrenceFeldspar

Every working recorded in Hampshire 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
Worthington Corners0.9 miles35
Ringville2.4 miles36
West Chesterfield3.2 miles35
West Worthington3.2 miles35
South Worthington4.4 miles36
Bryant Four Corners4.9 miles35
Cummington5.0 miles35
Chesterfield5.1 miles38

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122547119The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608001. 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.