Brightside, 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 Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1896 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1897 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1920 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1938 USGS Mt Tom quadrangle1:31680
• 1938 USGS Mt Tom quadrangle1:31680
• 1938 USGS Mt Tom quadrangle1:24000
• 1938 USGS Mt Tom quadrangle1:31680
• 1938 USGS Mt Tom quadrangle1:31680
• 1938 USGS Mt. Tom quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Mount Tom quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Mount Tom quadrangle1:24000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Mount Tom quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Mount Tom quadrangle1:25000
• 1972 USGS Mount Tom quadrangle1:25000
• 1975 USGS Mount Tom quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
• 1998 USGS Mount Tom quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 463 fires within 5 miles of Brightside between 2015 and 2020, burning about 187 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 2 were 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:

• Ashleyville
• Cayenne
• Chicopee
• Ingleside
• Sandy Hill
• Willimansett

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Museums hold 1,652 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brightside between 1831 and 1975: 669 Animalia, 623 Plantae, 329 Fungi, 16 Chromista, 9 Unrecorded, 5 Protozoa, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Albee, A. B. Seymour, A. K. Harrison, F. G. Floyd 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
	Lycopodiella inundata (L.) Holub	1892	Chapman	Southhampton
	Taphrina johansonii Sadeb.	1894	W.G. Farlow
	Calligrapha rhoda Knab, 1909	1900	F. Knab	West Springfield
	Carex bromoides Willd.	1831	Collector unknown
	Carex vesicaria L.	1836	Collector unknown
	Carex vestita Willd.	1836	Collector unspecified
	Carex siccata Dewey	1844	Collector unknown
	Amphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fernald	1845	Collector unspecified
	Galeopsis tetrahit L.	1845	not recorded
	Meleagris gallopavo silvestris Vieillot, 1817	1847	William D. Whitney	Mount Tom
	Alopecurus geniculatus L.	1850	not recorded
	Lactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt.	1850	Collector unspecified

All 1,652 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Brightside: 18 past producers, 15 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 plant. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Brick Clay, Clay, 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.

Every working recorded in Hampden 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 608715. 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.