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Camp Berkshire, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Southwick town. It lies in ZIP code area 01077. It stands on Millers Hill. The Survey maps it on the Southwick quadrangle.

Camp Berkshire within Hampden County

Then and now

1887 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Camp Berkshire, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Camp Berkshire, surveyed 1887

Compare 1887 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

42 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

56 since 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Camp Berkshire between 2010 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use21
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,471 shown

Museums hold 2,471 specimens collected within 10 miles of Camp Berkshire between 1844 and 1975: 1,261 Fungi, 738 Plantae, 392 Animalia, 58 Chromista, 22 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & Clara E. Cummings, A. B. Seymour; (a) A. B. Seymour, (b) Martin 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 FungiFungi1890Seymour, Arthur BlissGranville
Specimen of Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1890Arthur B. SeymourGranville
Specimen of Sphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.Sphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.1893Daniel C. Eaton
A photograph of the species Carex siccata, not of this specimenCarex siccata Dewey1844Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Amphicarpaea bracteata, not of this specimenAmphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fernald1845Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Alopecurus geniculatus, not of this specimenAlopecurus geniculatus L.1850not recorded
A photograph of the species Lactuca hirsuta, not of this specimenLactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt.1850Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Carex canescens, not of this specimenCarex canescens L.1852Collector unknownWestfield.
A photograph of the species Carex pallescens, not of this specimenCarex pallescens L.1852Collector unknownWestfield
A photograph of the species Eurybia schreberi, not of this specimenEurybia schreberi (Nees) Nees1852C. A. Shurtleff
A photograph of the species Lonicera dioica, not of this specimenLonicera dioica L.1852Collector unknown
Chelone glabra L.1891not recorded

All 2,471 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 Camp Berkshire: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone. 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
Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Great Brook PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Southwick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Southwick Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Arkose QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Arkose QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Arkose QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Trap Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Trap Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Trap Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Congamond0.9 miles42
Gillett Corner1.4 miles42
Southwick1.7 miles42
Vining Hill2.4 miles42
Hosmer Corner3.0 miles48
Shea Corner3.2 miles48
Johnson Corner4.3 miles48
Feeding Hills5.0 miles48

Elsewhere

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.

Wikidata item Q122555757The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608393. 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.