Alander, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1885 1997

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.

• 1885 USGS Sheffield quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Sheffield quadrangle1:62500
• 1891 USGS Sheffield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Sheffield quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Sheffield quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1899 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1943 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Bashbish Falls quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS Bashbish Falls quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Bash Bish Falls quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Bashbish Falls quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Bashbish Falls quadrangle1:25000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Bashbish Falls quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1987 USGS Ashley Falls quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Ashley Falls quadrangle1:25000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Alander between 2006 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 1 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:

• Sheffield
• South Egremont

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 836 specimens collected within 10 miles of Alander between 1860 and 1973: 689 Plantae, 108 Animalia, 38 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. L. Ericson, A. Lorenz, A. Lowe 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
	Equisetum sylvaticum L.	1900	Day, M.E.	Sheffield.
	Percopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)	1860	Britton McCabe	Green R. (trib. of Housatonic R.), 1 mi. S of Great Barrington on Rt. 23
	Carex vesicaria L.	1878	L. H. Hoysradt	Mt. Everett.
	Anthoceros laevis L.	1887	Unknown	Sheffield
	Coltricia cinnamomea (Jacq.) Murrill	1887	L. M. Underwood	Mt. Everett.
	Crucibulum laeve (Huds.) Kambly	1887	L. M. Underwood	Mt. Everett.
	Marasmius siccus (Schwein.) Fr.	1887	L. M. Underwood	Mt. Everett.
	Diphyscium foliosum (Hedw.) D.Mohr	1897	Elizabeth G. Britton	Mount Washington
	Gyrostachys ochroleuca Rydb.	1897	Mrs. Long	Mt. Washington
	Hylocomium splendens (Hedw.) Schimp.	1897	Elizabeth G. Britton	Bashbish Falls
	Neckera besseri (Lobarz.) Jur.	1897	E. G. Britton	Bashbish Falls
	Dichodontium pellucidum (Hedw.) Schimp.	1900	E. G. Britton	Bashbish Falls

All 836 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Alander: 20 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Iron, Manganese, Zinc. 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 Berkshire 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 607265. 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.