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

Algerie Four Corners, Massachusetts

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Otis town. It stands on Church Hill. The Survey maps it on the Otis quadrangle.

Algerie Four Corners within Berkshire County

Then and now

1888 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Algerie Four Corners, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Algerie Four Corners, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

37 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

12 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Algerie Four Corners between 2015 and 2018, burning about 11 acres in total. 1 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 burning	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
29 August 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
29 July 2017	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 June 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
7 May 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
27 May 2016	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
11 May 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
25 April 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,963 shown

Museums hold 1,963 specimens collected within 10 miles of Algerie Four Corners between 1872 and 1975: 1,150 Animalia, 590 Plantae, 221 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & A. C. Seymour, A. E. Treat 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Lygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.	1872	Miller, E.S.	East Hampton
Botrychium lanceolatum (S.G.Gmel.) Ångstr.	1873	S. M. Piper
Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.	1874	Frederick N. Pease
Gentianella quinquefolia subsp. quinquefolia	1875	not recorded
Leucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ångstr.	1877	H. J. Biddlecome	Chester
Botrychium angustisegmentum (Pease & A.H.Moore) Fernald	1879	not recorded
Botrychium dissectum Spreng.	1879	not recorded
Balansia hypoxylon (Peck) G.F.Atk.	1882	A. B. Seymour
Bryum caespiticium Hedw.	1883	unknown	Granville
Baeomyces roseus Pers.	1895	George T. Moore	Chestnut Hill
Acer saccharum Marshall	1897	Vail, A.M.	Tyringham
Acer spicatum Lam.	1897	Vail, A.M.	Vicinity of Tyringham

All 1,963 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 21 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Algerie Four Corners: 8 producers, 8 past producers, 5 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Emery, Talc-Soapstone, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Chester Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Berkshire Quarry	Granite	Producer
Williams Stone Co	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Soapstone Quarry	Talc-Soapstone	Producer	Metamorphic
Soapstone Quarry	Talc-Soapstone	Past Producer
Soapstone Quarry	Talc-Soapstone	Producer	Metamorphic
Soapstone Quarry	Talc-Soapstone	Past Producer
Melvin Emery Mine	Emery	Occurrence	1885
Melvin Emery Mine	Emery	Occurrence
Old Emery Mine	Emery	Producer	1885

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

3 since 2015

The National Weather Service names Algerie Four Corners in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Algerie Four Corners	-	Trees were downed on a road near the Town of Otis.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Algerie Four Corners	-	A road was blocked by a downed tree and wires.
July 2015	Hail	Algerie Four Corners	-	Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Otis.

Every storm recorded in Berkshire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Indian Lake Estates	3.0 miles	37
East Otis	3.1 miles	37
Bonny Rigg Corners	3.3 miles	37
Otis	3.7 miles	37
North Otis	4.3 miles	37
Otis Wood Lanes	4.4 miles	37
Becket Center	4.8 miles	37
Camp Chimney Corners	4.8 miles	37

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 Q122559399

The 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 608004. 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.