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

Brimfield, Massachusetts

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Brimfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 01010. It stands on East Brook. The Survey maps it on the Wales quadrangle.

Brimfield within Hampden County

Then and now

1887 to 1985

The 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 sheet of Brimfield, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Brimfield, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

36 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

33 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Brimfield between 2015 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 2 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	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	2
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
17 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 August 2020	Smoking	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
21 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
19 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.2 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
30 May 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 546 shown

Museums hold 546 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brimfield between 1858 and 1975: 409 Fungi, 93 Plantae, 39 Animalia, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A.B. Seymour, A.G. 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.

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
Carex vestita Willd.	1858	J. Blake	Ware
Celastrus scandens L.	1858	s.coll.
Nitella megacarpa (T.F.A.) R.D.W.	1874	Piper, S. M.
Calostoma cinnabarinum Desv.	1879	S. J. Harkness	Thorndike.
Calostoma fuscum (Berk.) Massee	1879	S. J. Harkness	Thorndike.
Calostoma lutescens (Schwein.) Burnap, 1897	1879	Collector unspecified	Thorndike.
Mitremyces Nees, 1816	1879	S. J. Harkness
Cryptosporella anomala (Peck) Sacc.	1892	Graves H.	Palmer
Goodyera pubescens (Willd.) R.Br.	1892	E. L. Morris	Monson
Potamogeton natans L.	1892	E. L. Morris	Monson
Sphagnum subsecundum Nees	1893	not recorded	Monson

All 546 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Brimfield: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Dug Hill Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
E W Sykes Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hi-Way Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Holland Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Palmer Bituminous Corp	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Palmer Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Storms nearby

13 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Brimfield in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood, 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Brimfield	$10,000	A tree was downed onto a house on Crestwood Road.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Brimfield	$5,000	A tree and wires on Mulcare Road were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Brimfield	$5,000	no account filed
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Brimfield	$3,000	In Brimfield, there was a tree down on Warren Rd.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Brimfield	$1,000	A tree on Battery Avenue was downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2008	Flood	Brimfield	$1,000	Heavy rain associated with Tropical Storm Hanna resulted in the Quinebaug River overrunning its banks, flooding low lying areas.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Brimfield	$500	no account filed
April 2019	Hail	Brimfield	-	Quarter size hail was reported in Brimfield by the broadcast media.
April 2019	Hail	Brimfield	-	Brimfield Police reported ping pong ball size hail.
August 2011	Flood	Brimfield	-	After receiving nearly four inches of rain associated with Tropical Storm Irene, portions of Route 20 in Brimfield and Wilbraham were closed due to flooding.
June 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Brimfield	-	The tornado touched down north of Brimfield, west of Route 19. It then crossed Route 19 and lifted near Tower Hill Road. The damage was surveyed on the ground and by aircraft and consisted of trees with large limbs snapped off, as well as numerous trees downed, a few of which were uprooted. This tornado was produced by the same thunderstorm that produced the North Wilbraham tornado.\|\|All associated property damage estimates are included in the EF3 tornado that occurred in Hampden and Worcester Counties.
June 2008	Hail	Brimfield	-	no account filed
March 1998	Flash Flood	West Brimfield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hampden 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
Little Rest	1.4 miles	34
East Brimfield	2.9 miles	36
Dingley Dell	3.0 miles	33
Wales	3.9 miles	36
Fentonville	4.0 miles	35
Holland	4.7 miles	36
West Brimfield	4.8 miles	35
North Monson	5.7 miles	33

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609776. 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.