Camp Ashmere, Massachusetts

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.

1886 1997

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 Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1899 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1945 USGS Peru quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Peru quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Peru quadrangle1:31680
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Peru quadrangle1:24000
• 1959 USGS Peru quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Peru quadrangle1:25000
• 1973 USGS Peru quadrangle1:25000
• 1973 USGS Peru quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Peru quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Pittsfield East quadrangle1:25000
• 1997 USGS Pittsfield East quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Camp Ashmere between 2015 and 2016, burning about 9 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:

• Camp Danbee
• Camp Lenore
• Camp Taconic
• Beechwood Estates
• Camp Emerson
• Camp Wyoma

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Museums hold 920 specimens collected within 10 miles of Camp Ashmere between 1835 and 1975: 455 Animalia, 262 Plantae, 197 Fungi, 6 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. K. Harrison, A. K. Harrison, Florence, A. Lorenz 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
	Bombus ternarius Say, 1837	1898	[Not Stated]	Hinsdale
	Persicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre	1835	C. A. Shurtleff	Pittsfield
	Solidago patula Muhl. ex Willd.	1858	Brewer; Chickering
	Homalia jamesii Schimp.	1867	unknown	Waconah Falls State Park
	Homalia trichomanoides (Hedw.) Schimp.	1867	E. C. Howe
	Potentilla fruticosa L.	1868	Redfield, J.H.	Pittsfield
	Carex communis var. communis	1874	J. H. Redfield	Borders of woods, Pittsfield. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
	Euphorbia cyparissias L.	1874	Redfield, John H.	Pittsfield; [illegible].
	Dichelyma capillaceum (Dicks.) Myrin	1875	N. Coleman
	Procyon lotor lotor (Linnaeus, 1758)	1876	B. Patrick	Pittsfield. Canoe Meadows
	Claytonia caroliniana Michx.	1899	Collector unspecified on label	Between Pittsfield of Hancock.
	Ramularia barbareae Peck	1899	Bessey Ernst A.	Pittsfield near

All 920 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Camp Ashmere: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Asbestos. 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 eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607848. 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.