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Bisbee Mill, Massachusetts

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Chesterfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 01012. It stands on Thayer Brook. The Survey maps it on the Westhampton quadrangle.

Bisbee Mill within Hampshire 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 Bisbee Mill, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Bisbee Mill, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

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

14 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bisbee Mill between 2015 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. 1 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 use5
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
25 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
19 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use25 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
16 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
10 May 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
19 April 2015Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,456 shown

Museums hold 1,456 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bisbee Mill between 1822 and 1975: 847 Plantae, 350 Animalia, 239 Fungi, 17 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A., A. C. Gibson, A. Gurney 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 Camissonia LinkCamissonia Link1898B. L. Robinson
Specimen of Buellia disciformis (Fr.) MuddBuellia disciformis (Fr.) Mudd1900George P. ClintonHammond Pond
Specimen of Graphis scripta (L.) Ach.Graphis scripta (L.) Ach.1900George P. ClintonHammond Pond
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylloidea, not of this specimenPorella platyphylloidea (Schwein.) Lindb.1822EmmonsNorwich
A photograph of the species Kalmia angustifolia, not of this specimenKalmia angustifolia f. angustifolia1838L. DeWetteNorthampton.
A photograph of the species Kalmia latifolia, not of this specimenKalmia latifolia var. latifolia1838L. DeWetteNorthampton.
A photograph of the species Pogonia ophioglossoides, not of this specimenPogonia ophioglossoides (L.) Ker Gawl.1838L. DeWetteNorthampton.
A photograph of the species Veratrum viride, not of this specimenVeratrum viride subsp. viride1847not recordedBrunswick and Goshen
A photograph of the species Stellaria graminea, not of this specimenStellaria graminea L.1849not recorded
A photograph of the species Rorippa palustris, not of this specimenRorippa palustris subsp. palustris1858not recorded
A photograph of the species Actitis macularius, not of this specimenActitis macularius (Linnaeus, 1766)1866William D. WhitneyNorthampton
A photograph of the species Antrostomus vociferus, not of this specimenAntrostomus vociferus (A.Wilson, 1812)1866William D. WhitneyNorthampton

All 1,456 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 18 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Bisbee Mill: 7 past producers, 5 producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Lithium, Stone, Iron, 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
Argentine Galena VeinSilver, LeadOccurrenceGalena
Argentine Galena VeinLead, SilverProspect
Bog Iron OccurrenceIronOccurrence
Bog Iron OccurrenceIronOccurrence
Westhampton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Westhampton Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Whetstone QuarryStoneProducerMetamorphic
Whetstone QuarryStonePast Producer
Clark Ledge Lithia MineLithiumProducerFeldspar
Clark Ledge Lithia MineLithiumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

Storms nearby

2 since 2021

The National Weather Service names Bisbee Mill in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBisbee Mill$800In Chesterfield, a tree was down on wires on South Street.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBisbee Mill$800In Chesterfield, a tree and wires were down on Stage Road.

Every storm recorded in Hampshire 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
Chesterfield1.6 miles38
West Chesterfield3.6 miles35
Searsville4.3 miles42
South Worthington4.3 miles36
Goshen4.7 miles38
Ringville4.8 miles36
Williamsburg4.9 miles42
Swift River5.4 miles38

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608394. 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.