Block
Blanchardville, Massachusetts
35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Palmer Town City. It lies in ZIP code area 01069. It stands on Chicopee Brook. The Survey maps it on the Palmer quadrangle.
Then and now
1887 to 1985The 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 sheets covering this place
35 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1887 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
- 1889 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
- 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
- 1919 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
- 1946 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:31680
- 1946 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:31680
- 1946 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:31680
- 1946 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:31680
- 1947 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:25000
- 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:31680
- 1954 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:25000
- 1969 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:25000
- 1975 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:25000
- 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
69 since 2015The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Blanchardville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. 10 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 use | 39 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 4 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 22 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 12 September 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 9 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 8 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 4 August 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 23 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 939 shownMuseums hold 939 specimens collected within 10 miles of Blanchardville between 1857 and 1975: 504 Fungi, 220 Plantae, 196 Animalia, 14 Chromista, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. E. Kirk, A. Lavallee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Polygonum pensylvanicum L. | 1897 | Morris,E.L. s.n. [1897-08] | [label: Flora of North America - Herbarium of E.L. Morris] Monson. Massachussets. Rubbish heaps |
 | Krigia virginica (L.) Willd. | 1857 | not recorded | |
 | Carex cephalophora Muhl. ex Willd. | 1858 | J. Blake | |
 | Carex vestita Willd. | 1858 | J. Blake | Ware |
 | Castilleja coccinea (L.) Spreng. | 1858 | A. P. Chute | |
 | Celastrus scandens L. | 1858 | s.coll. | |
 | Ranunculus flabellaris Raf. | 1858 | A. P. Chute | |
| Trifolium agrarium L. | 1858 | not recorded | ||
 | Zizia aurea (L.) W.D.J.Koch | 1859 | A. P. Chute | |
 | Catharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921) | 1870 | Collector(s): Joseph H. Batty | South Wilbraham |
| Acer spicatum Lam. | 1891 | not recorded | ||
| Cryptosporella anomala (Peck) Sacc. | 1892 | Graves H. | Palmer |
All 939 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
9 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Blanchardville: 5 producers, 4 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J J Raczka Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| J.J. Raczka Sand and Gravel Co. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Jurczyk Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lizak's Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Monson Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Monson Sand and Gravel Corp | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Palmer Bituminous Corp | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Palmer Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Palmer Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tenneyville | 0.6 miles | 35 | |
| Palmer | 1.6 miles | 35 | |
| North Monson | 1.6 miles | 33 | |
| Fentonville | 1.7 miles | 35 | |
| Palmer Center | 2.5 miles | 35 | |
| Meadowbrook Green | 2.6 miles | 35 | |
| Palmer Green Estates | 2.6 miles | 35 | |
| Monson | 3.0 miles | 33 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609512. 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.