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Baptist Village, Massachusetts

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in East Longmeadow town. It lies in ZIP code area 01028. The Survey maps it on the Hampden quadrangle.

Baptist Village within Hampden County

Then and now

1887 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Baptist Village, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Baptist Village, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

38 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

138 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Baptist Village between 2002 and 2020, burning about 180 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Equipment and vehicle use40
Natural18
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking8
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMINNECHAUG MT FIRE
17 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
16 September 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 August 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMassachusetts 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 1,256 shown

Museums hold 1,256 specimens collected within 10 miles of Baptist Village between 1845 and 1974: 499 Animalia, 447 Fungi, 281 Plantae, 16 Chromista, 13 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. E. Kirk, A. M. & D. P. Rogers 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 Taphrina johansonii Sadeb.Taphrina johansonii Sadeb.1894W.G. Farlow
Specimen of Lygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.Lygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.1895Deane, WalterEast Longmeadow;;;;
Specimen of Polygonum pensylvanicum L.Polygonum pensylvanicum L.1897Morris,E.L. s.n. [1897-08][label: Flora of North America - Herbarium of E.L. Morris] Monson. Massachussets. Rubbish heaps
A photograph of the species Galeopsis tetrahit, not of this specimenGaleopsis tetrahit L.1845not recorded
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1857Collector(s): Joel Asaph AllenSpringfield
A photograph of the species Pipilo erythrophthalmus, not of this specimenPipilo erythrophthalmus erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)1857Collector(s): Joel Asaph AllenSpringfield
A photograph of the species Setophaga aestiva, not of this specimenSetophaga aestiva aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1857Collector(s): Joel Asaph AllenSpringfield
A photograph of the species Turdus migratorius, not of this specimenTurdus migratorius migratorius Linnaeus, 17661857Collector(s): Joel Asaph AllenSpringfield
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atratulus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)1859Wheatland, R.H.Chicopee River, at Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts; Locality according to historical catalogue: 'Chicopa River, Massachusetts'/erroneous, is Chicopee River, at Chicopee, Massachusetts (according to MCZ online fish catalogue).
A photograph of the species Rhododendron canadense, not of this specimenRhododendron canadense (L.) Torr.1861not recordedChicopee
A photograph of the species Brevoortia tyrannus, not of this specimenBrevoortia tyrannus (Latrobe, 1802)1863Agassiz, Jean Louis RodolpheAgawam River, at Agawam, Hampden County, Massachusetts; Locality according to historical inventory: 'Agawan River'/is Agawam River, at Agawam, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (according to MCZ online fish database).
Alnus incana (L.) Moench1891unknownWoods Hall.

All 1,256 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 12 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Baptist Village: 7 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Flagstone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Wilson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wilson-Siano PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sandstone QuarryStone, DimensionProducerSandstone
Sandstone QuarryStone, DimensionProducerSandstone
Sandstone QuarryStone, DimensionProducerSandstone
Sandstone QuarryStone, DimensionProducerSandstone
Sandstone QuarryStone, DimensionProducerSandstone
Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer

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
East Longmeadow2.5 miles50
Hampden3.2 miles38
Mileoak Corner4.5 miles38
East Forest Park4.9 miles50
Sixteen Acres5.1 miles50
The X5.4 miles50
Wilbraham5.7 miles38
Pine Point5.9 miles50

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 Q122559885The 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 609245. 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.