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

Braytonville, Massachusetts

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in North Adams City. It lies in ZIP code area 01247. It lies in The Notch. The Survey maps it on the Williamstown quadrangle.

Braytonville 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 Braytonville, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Braytonville, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

40 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

28 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Braytonville between 2015 and 2018, burning about 302 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 burning13
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 July 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 July 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 May 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 May 2015Debris and open burning2.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 May 2015Smoking5.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 May 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 854 shown

Museums hold 854 specimens collected within 10 miles of Braytonville between 1828 and 1975: 428 Plantae, 247 Animalia, 162 Fungi, 11 Protozoa, 3 Chromista, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A K Harrison, A Schwartz, A. H. Gustafson 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 Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Richardson, 1823Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Richardson, 18231898J. R. Churchill
Specimen of Carex pensylvanica Lam.Carex pensylvanica Lam.1898J. R. Churchill
Specimen of Lycopodium annotinum var. pungens (Desv.) La Pylaie ex Desv.Lycopodium annotinum var. pungens (Desv.) La Pylaie ex Desv.1898Kofoid, C.A.North Adams.
A photograph of the species Carex aestivalis, not of this specimenCarex aestivalis M.A.Curtis ex A.Gray1828Collector unknownSaddle Mountain, near Williamstown.
A photograph of the species Carex emmonsii, not of this specimenCarex emmonsii var. muhlenbergii (A.Gray ex Torrey) Rettig1828Collector unspecifiedWilliamstown. [Inferred locality from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Cystopteris bulbifera, not of this specimenCystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.1828Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Dryopteris goldiana, not of this specimenDryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray1828Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Fraxinus americana, not of this specimenFraxinus americana L.1828J. Torrey
Jamesoniella autumnalis (DC.) Steph.1828Ebenezer Emmons
A photograph of the species Tilia americana, not of this specimenTilia americana L.1828Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Scorzoneroides autumnalis, not of this specimenScorzoneroides autumnalis (L.) Moench1850not recorded
A photograph of the species Spiraea tomentosa, not of this specimenSpiraea tomentosa L.1850not recorded

All 854 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 11 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Braytonville: 4 producers, 4 past producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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
Pfizer IncCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
Adams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Adams PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Curran Highway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
New England Lime Company QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerSedimentary
North Adams Lime QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerStratabound
North Adams Lime QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerStratabound
Adams Quarry & Plant Pfizer IncStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
New England Lime Company QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
North Adams Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

2 since 2023

The National Weather Service names Braytonville in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2023: 1 flash flood, 1 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
July 2023FloodBraytonville$1,500,000Heavy rainfall caused flooding of roads, homes and other crucial pieces of infrastructure throughout the City of North Adams. City Mayor Jennifer Macksey reported approximately 10 to 15 roads washed out with debris coming down the mountainside. Road collapses occurred across portions of Chruch Street, State Street and Brooklyn Street. Estimated cost of repairs was $1.5 million.
June 2023Flash FloodBraytonville$25,000The combination of heavy rainfall and mud and debris blocking storm drains resulted in flash flooding across the City of North Adams. Several roadways had to be shut down including Church Street, Mansion Street and River Street. Water and debris also covered portions of Ashland Street, Eagle Street and Elmwood Avenue.

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
Brayton Hill0.7 miles40
Greylock1.1 miles40
North Adams1.1 miles39
Houghtonville1.5 miles39
Blackinton2.0 miles40
Briggsville2.9 miles39
Meadowvale2.9 miles40
West Summit3.4 miles39

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607327. 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.