Ashley Falls, 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

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Col. John Ashley House (Boundary Increase)listed 1975 · 1.0 miles away

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 Ashley Falls quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS Ashley Falls quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Ashley Falls quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Ashley Falls quadrangle1:25000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Ashley 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 82 fires within 5 miles of Ashley Falls between 1993 and 2020, burning about 190 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.

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:

• Clayton
• East Sheffield
• Gomorrah
• Sheffield
• Mill River
• Southfield

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 976 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ashley Falls between 1860 and 1973: 823 Plantae, 108 Animalia, 44 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Brown, A. L. Ericson, A. Lorenz 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.
	Chordeiles minor minor (J.R.Forster, 1771)	1883	Collector(s): H. C. Johnson	near New Marlboro
	Juncus tenuis Willd.	1884	J. Ball	Great Barrington
	Solidago caesia L.	1884	J. Ball	Great Barrington
	Anthoceros laevis L.	1887	Unknown	Sheffield
	Coltricia cinnamomea (Jacq.) Murrill	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

All 976 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Ashley Falls: 12 past producers, 6 producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Marble, Dimension, Iron. 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashley Falls in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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.

Every storm 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.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607276. 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.