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

Blush Hollow, Massachusetts

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Middlefield town. It lies in ZIP code area 01243. It stands on West Hill. The Survey maps it on the Becket quadrangle.

Blush Hollow 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 Blush Hollow, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Blush Hollow, 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

2 since 2016

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Blush Hollow between 2016 and 2016, burning about 22 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 burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
31 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
12 March 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 304 shown

Museums hold 304 specimens collected within 10 miles of Blush Hollow between 1872 and 1975: 227 Animalia, 39 Fungi, 38 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. K. Harrison, Ahles, H.E., Andrew J. Main 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Lygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.	1872	Miller, E.S.	East Hampton
Leucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ångstr.	1877	H. J. Biddlecome	Chester
Dendroica discolor discolor (Vieillot, 1809)	1890	C. H. Watrous	Chester
Dendroica virens virens (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1891	Henry Bennett	Chester
Lithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)	1892	not recorded	Worthington
Lithobates palustris (LeConte, 1825)	1892	not recorded	Worthington
Pachynematus kirbyi (Dahlbom, 1835)	1903	not recorded
Salix eriocephala var. eriocephala	1908	F. F. Forbes	Chester. River bank in village.
Papulaspora candida Sacc.	1911	Hotson J. W.	Walnut Hill
Lasiopogon currani Cole & Wilcox, 1938	1912	[Not Stated]	Chester
Apocynum androsaemifolium L.	1913	M. L. Fernald; B. Long
Arenaria macrophylla Hook.	1913	M. L. Fernald, B. Long	Middlefield.

All 304 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 14 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Blush Hollow: 9 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Emery, Talc-Soapstone, Iron, Iron, Emery. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Chrome-Magnetite Mine	Iron, Chromium	Past Producer
Sackett Emery Mine	Iron, Emery	Occurrence	1875
Sackett Emery Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Magnetite
Sackett Emery Mine	Iron, Emery	Past Producer
Middlefield Prospects	Talc-Soapstone	Occurrence
Soapstone Quarry	Talc-Soapstone	Producer	Metamorphic
Talc Occurance	Talc-Soapstone	Occurrence	Metamorphic
Talc Occurrence	Talc-Soapstone	Occurrence
Chrome-Magnetite Mine	Emery	Occurrence	Emery
Northern Chester Emery Mine	Emery	Occurrence	Emery

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Middlefield	1.0 miles	37
Bancroft	2.3 miles	37
West Worthington	6.1 miles	35
Worthington Center	6.4 miles	35
Ringville	6.8 miles	36
Worthington Corners	7.0 miles	35
South Worthington	7.6 miles	36
West Chesterfield	9.3 miles	35

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608017. 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.