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Baird Four Corners, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Granville town. It lies in ZIP code area 01034. It stands on Phelon Brook. The Survey maps it on the West Granville quadrangle.

Baird Four Corners within Hampden County

Then and now

1887 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Baird Four Corners, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Baird Four Corners, surveyed 1887

Compare 1887 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

39 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

6 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Baird Four Corners between 2015 and 2020, burning about 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
11 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 April 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 March 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 March 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 February 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,156 shown

Museums hold 2,156 specimens collected within 10 miles of Baird Four Corners between 1831 and 1975: 1,262 Fungi, 701 Plantae, 123 Animalia, 54 Chromista, 16 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by "WJG", A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & A. C. Seymour 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 FungiFungi1890Seymour, Arthur BlissGranville
Specimen of Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1890Arthur B. SeymourGranville
Specimen of Sphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.Sphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.1893Daniel C. Eaton
A photograph of the species Panax quinquefolius, not of this specimenPanax quinquefolius L.1831Collector unspecifiedBlandford
A photograph of the species Carex siccata, not of this specimenCarex siccata Dewey1844Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Amphicarpaea bracteata, not of this specimenAmphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fernald1845Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Alopecurus geniculatus, not of this specimenAlopecurus geniculatus L.1850not recorded
A photograph of the species Lactuca hirsuta, not of this specimenLactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt.1850Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Carex canescens, not of this specimenCarex canescens L.1852Collector unknownWestfield.
A photograph of the species Carex pallescens, not of this specimenCarex pallescens L.1852Collector unknownWestfield
A photograph of the species Eurybia schreberi, not of this specimenEurybia schreberi (Nees) Nees1852C. A. Shurtleff
Chelone glabra L.1891not recorded

All 2,156 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 13 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Baird Four Corners: 5 producers, 5 past producers, 3 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Mica, Feldspar, Brick Clay. 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
Blandford Mica MineMica, FeldsparPast ProducerFeldspar, Mica
Kaolin QuarryBrick ClayProducer
Kaolin QuarryClayPast Producer
Westfield DepositKyaniteOccurrence
Blandford Mica MineMicaProducerMica
Blandford Mica MineMicaOccurrence
Blandford Mica MineMicaOccurrence
Osburn Soapstone QuarryTalc-SoapstoneProducerMetamorphic
Osburn Soapstone QuarryTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Soapstone QuarryTalc-SoapstoneProducerMetamorphic

Every working recorded in Hampden 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
West Granville3.1 miles39
Camp Woronoak3.9 miles37
South Quarter4.0 miles37
Woronoco Heights4.0 miles37
Blandford4.1 miles36
Granville Center4.6 miles39
Tolland Center5.1 miles39
Granville5.3 miles42

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 Q122561349The 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 615555. 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.