Brier, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 1998

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.

• 1886 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1890 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Brattleboro quadrangle1:125000
• 1947 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:31680
• 1947 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:31680
• 1955 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:31680
• 1955 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1955 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:31680
• 1955 USGS Plainfield 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
• 1971 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1971 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1975 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Ashfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1990 USGS Ashfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1998 USGS Ashfield quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Brier between 2006 and 2019, burning about 6 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Drury
• Savoy Center
• Eastern Summit
• Florida
• Hoosac Tunnel
• Little Egypt

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Museums hold 553 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brier between 1855 and 1975: 256 Plantae, 154 Fungi, 133 Animalia, 6 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A K Harrison, A Schwartz, A. K. Harrison 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
	Lycopodium annotinum var. pungens (Desv.) La Pylaie ex Desv.	1898	Kofoid, C.A.	North Adams.
	Coptis trifolia (L.) Salisb.	1855	Smer	Williamstown Map - Mt. Greylock
	Carex aestivalis M.A.Curtis ex A.Gray	1865	Boott, M.	Saddle Mountain, Williamstown [Mount Greylock]
	Carex novae-angliae Schwein.	1865	W. Boott	Saddle Ball Mountain
	Homalia jamesii Schimp.	1867	unknown	Waconah Falls State Park
	Dichelyma capillaceum (Dicks.) Myrin	1875	N. Coleman
	Amelanchier bartramiana (Tausch) M.Roem.	1892	Lloyd, F.E.	summit of Mt. Greylock, nr Williamstown, New Ashford
	Crataegus crus-galli L.	1892	Lloyd, F.E.	North Adams
	Booneacris glacialis glacialis (Scudder, 1862)	1894	A.P. Morse
	Puccinia grossulariae Lagerh.	1898	Churchill	Adams
	Thymus serpyllum L.	1898	J. R. Churchill
	Polytrichum urnigerum Hedw.	1899	Elizabeth G. Britton	Mount Greylock

All 553 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Brier: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Copper, Nickel. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

The National Weather Service names Brier in 1 storm report between 2016 and 2016: 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Berkshire County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607863. 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.