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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Beechwood Estates, Massachusetts

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Hinsdale town. It lies in ZIP code area 01235. It stands on Cady Brook. The Survey maps it on the Peru quadrangle.

Beechwood Estates within Berkshire County

Then and now

1886 to 1997

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.

Topographic sheet of Beechwood Estates, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Beechwood Estates, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

37 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

17 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Beechwood Estates between 2015 and 2017, burning about 8 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
Debris and open burning12
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
29 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
19 July 2016Smoking1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 May 2015Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 May 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
20 April 2016Debris 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 677 shown

Museums hold 677 specimens collected within 10 miles of Beechwood Estates between 1835 and 1975: 301 Plantae, 185 Fungi, 183 Animalia, 6 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A K Harrison, A. K. Harrison, A. K. Harrison, Florence 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
A photograph of the species Persicaria amphibia, not of this specimenPersicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre1835C. A. ShurtleffPittsfield
A photograph of the species Solidago patula, not of this specimenSolidago patula Muhl. ex Willd.1858Brewer; Chickering
A photograph of the species Homalia jamesii, not of this specimenHomalia jamesii Schimp.1867unknownWaconah Falls State Park
A photograph of the species Homalia trichomanoides, not of this specimenHomalia trichomanoides (Hedw.) Schimp.1867E. C. Howe
A photograph of the species Potentilla fruticosa, not of this specimenPotentilla fruticosa L.1868Redfield, J.H.Pittsfield
A photograph of the species Carex communis, not of this specimenCarex communis var. communis1874J. H. RedfieldBorders of woods, Pittsfield. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Euphorbia cyparissias, not of this specimenEuphorbia cyparissias L.1874Redfield, John H.Pittsfield; [illegible].
A photograph of the species Dichelyma capillaceum, not of this specimenDichelyma capillaceum (Dicks.) Myrin1875N. Coleman
A photograph of the species Procyon lotor, not of this specimenProcyon lotor lotor (Linnaeus, 1758)1876B. PatrickPittsfield. Canoe Meadows
A photograph of the species Claytonia caroliniana, not of this specimenClaytonia caroliniana Michx.1899Collector unspecified on labelBetween Pittsfield of Hancock.
A photograph of the species Ramularia barbareae, not of this specimenRamularia barbareae Peck1899Bessey Ernst A.Pittsfield near

All 677 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Beechwood Estates: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Asbestos. 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
Hinsdale PitAsbestosProducer
Berkshire PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dalton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dalton Pit /Genrl Sand & StoneSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dalton PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Donovan Blacktop Service IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working 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
Camp Taconic1.9 miles37
Hinsdale2.7 miles37
Camp Lenore2.7 miles37
Camp Ashmere2.8 miles37
Dalton2.9 miles37
Camp Danbee3.0 miles37
Camp Emerson3.2 miles37
Camp Wyoma3.3 miles37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1978629. 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.