Royalston – Populated Place in Worcester, Massachusetts

Identifier

GNIS Feature ID 609707

Location

State Massachusetts

County Worcester

Feature Class Populated Place

Coordinates

DMS

42°40'39"N 72°11'16"W

Decimal Degrees

42.6775856, -72.1878604

Elevation

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USGS 7.5′ Quad Map

Quad Name Royalston

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Protected Areas

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Nearest Populated Place

Camp Caravan

2.9 mi SE

Also Known As

Royalston Centre

Hydrography

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Description

5 mi NE of Athol; Town of Royalston.

History

Named for Colonel Isaac Royal, one of its proprietors.

Nearby Features

Little Pond Lake · 0.2 mi WSW
Frye Hill Summit · 0.8 mi N
Beaver Brook Stream · 0.8 mi ENE
Dunham Brook Stream · 1.0 mi SE
Spirit Falls Falls · 1.1 mi SW
Long Pond Lake · 1.2 mi WSW
Jacob Hill Cliff · 1.5 mi NNW
Boyce Brook Stream · 1.6 mi W
Gale Hill Summit · 1.7 mi SSE
Paine Swamp Swamp · 2.1 mi S

Data Sources & Attribution

Feature data: U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) – U.S. Geological Survey.
Elevation: USGS Elevation Point Query Service (EPQS).
Topographic basemap: USGS National Map.
Quad map thumbnails: USGS US Topo.
Watershed boundaries: USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD).
Protected areas: USGS Protected Areas Database (PAD-US) – Gap Analysis Project.
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