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Barkerville, Massachusetts

44 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Pittsfield City. It lies in ZIP code area 01201. It stands on Shaker Brook. The Survey maps it on the Pittsfield West quadrangle.

Barkerville within Berkshire County

Then and now

1888 to 1998

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 Barkerville, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Barkerville, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

44 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

109 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Barkerville between 2002 and 2020, burning about 81 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning57
Recreation and ceremony19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
28 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 September 2017Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 September 2016Other causesunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 August 2002Smokingunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 July 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 July 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,215 shown

Museums hold 1,215 specimens collected within 10 miles of Barkerville between 1833 and 1975: 580 Plantae, 328 Animalia, 300 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Evans, A. Brown, A. H. Mead 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 Bombus ternarius Say, 1837Bombus ternarius Say, 18371898[Not Stated]Hinsdale
Specimen of Potamogeton pusillus subsp. tenuissimus (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) K.Richt.Potamogeton pusillus subsp. tenuissimus (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) K.Richt.1900P. B. Weatherbee
A photograph of the species Betula alleghaniensis, not of this specimenBetula alleghaniensis Britton1833Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Betula pumila, not of this specimenBetula pumila L.1833Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Carex utriculata, not of this specimenCarex utriculata Boott1833W. L. Worcester
A photograph of the species Dennstaedtia punctilobula, not of this specimenDennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore1833Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Gymnocarpium dryopteris, not of this specimenGymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman1833Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Parnassia caroliniana, not of this specimenParnassia caroliniana Michx.1834not recorded
A photograph of the species Persicaria amphibia, not of this specimenPersicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre1835C. A. ShurtleffPittsfield
A photograph of the species Bromus latiglumis, not of this specimenBromus latiglumis (Shear) Hitchc.1857W. H. Leggett
A photograph of the species Solidago patula, not of this specimenSolidago patula Muhl. ex Willd.1858Brewer; Chickering
A photograph of the species Dendroica petechia, not of this specimenDendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1896Benjamin HoagStephentown, Garfield

All 1,215 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 26 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Barkerville: 16 past producers, 6 producers, 4 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Manganese, Manganese. 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
Cheever MinesIron, ManganeseProducerGoethite, Limonite
Cheever MinesIron, ManganesePast Producer
General Sand and Stone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Vincent Pit & Plnt Pittsfield S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vincent Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Andrews MineIronPast Producer
Bacon MineIronProducer1846
Bacon MineIronOccurrence
Belden MineIronProducerLimonite
Belden MineIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

1 since 2009

The National Weather Service names Barkerville in 1 storm report between 2009 and 2009: 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2009Flash FloodBarkerville-South Street, Route 7 and 20, in Pittsfield at the Lenox line was closed due to high water. A person was trapped in a vehicle in water estimated at a depth of 12 to 18 inches.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
West Pittsfield0.6 miles44
Camp Marion White0.6 miles44
Camp Russell1.1 miles44
Stearnsville1.3 miles44
Hancock Shaker Village1.6 miles44
Stevens Corner2.0 miles44
Camp Witawentin3.8 miles44
Pittsfield3.9 miles37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607288. 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.