Bancroft, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 111 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 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.

• 1886 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1899 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1945 USGS Becket quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Becket quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Becket quadrangle1:31680
• 1954 USGS Becket quadrangle1:25000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Becket quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Becket quadrangle1:24000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Becket quadrangle1:25000
• 1973 USGS Becket quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Becket quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS East Lee quadrangle1:25000
• 1997 USGS East Lee quadrangle1:25000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bancroft between 2016 and 2018, burning about 26 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.

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:

• Blush Hollow
• Middlefield
• Loudville

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Museums hold 345 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bancroft between 1822 and 1975: 233 Animalia, 66 Plantae, 46 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. K. Harrison, A. Pealey, Ahles, H.E. 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
	Porella platyphylloidea (Schwein.) Lindb.	1822	Emmons	Norwich
	Lygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.	1872	Miller, E.S.	East Hampton
	Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.	1874	Frederick N. Pease
	Leucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ångstr.	1877	H. J. Biddlecome	Chester
	Botrychium dissectum Spreng.	1879	not recorded
	Puccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm.	1885	Mason Frank C. Mrs.	Huntington
	Dendroica discolor discolor (Vieillot, 1809)	1890	C. H. Watrous	Chester
	Dendroica virens virens (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1891	Henry Bennett	Chester
	Lithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)	1892	not recorded	Worthington
	Lithobates palustris (LeConte, 1825)	1892	not recorded	Worthington
	Pachynematus kirbyi (Dahlbom, 1835)	1903	not recorded
	Alternaria panax Whetzel	1908	Cross? E. H.	Huntington

All 345 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Bancroft: 9 occurrences, 7 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Emery, Silica, Iron, Talc-Soapstone. 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 Hampshire 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 608007. 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.