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Camp Greylock, Massachusetts

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Becket town. It lies in ZIP code area 01223. It stands on Benton Hill. The Survey maps it on the Becket quadrangle.

Camp Greylock within Berkshire County

Then and now

1886 to 1997

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.

Topographic sheet of Camp Greylock, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Camp Greylock, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

37 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

10 since 2016

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Camp Greylock between 2016 and 2019, burning about 30 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
29 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 July 2017Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 June 2018Smoking2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 June 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 April 2019Smoking1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
20 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
10 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
31 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,785 shown

Museums hold 1,785 specimens collected within 10 miles of Camp Greylock between 1834 and 1975: 1,214 Animalia, 411 Plantae, 159 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Treat, A. K. Harrison, A. M. Vail 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
A photograph of the species Parnassia caroliniana, not of this specimenParnassia caroliniana Michx.1834not recorded
A photograph of the species Homalia trichomanoides, not of this specimenHomalia trichomanoides (Hedw.) Schimp.1867E. C. Howe
A photograph of the species Lygodium palmatum, not of this specimenLygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.1872Miller, E.S.East Hampton
A photograph of the species Eleusine indica, not of this specimenEleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.1874Frederick N. Pease
A photograph of the species Warnstorfia fluitans, not of this specimenWarnstorfia fluitans (Hedw.) Loeske1876Piper
A photograph of the species Leucobryum glaucum, not of this specimenLeucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ã…ngstr.1877H. J. BiddlecomeChester
A photograph of the species Botrychium angustisegmentum, not of this specimenBotrychium angustisegmentum (Pease & A.H.Moore) Fernald1879not recorded
A photograph of the species Botrychium dissectum, not of this specimenBotrychium dissectum Spreng.1879not recorded
Botrychium virginianum subsp. typicum R.T.Clausen1884Spencer, M.F.Tyringham. In silvaticis.
A photograph of the species Acer saccharum, not of this specimenAcer saccharum Marshall1897Vail, A.M.Tyringham
A photograph of the species Acer spicatum, not of this specimenAcer spicatum Lam.1897Vail, A.M.Vicinity of Tyringham
A photograph of the species Acorus calamus, not of this specimenAcorus calamus L.1897Vail, A.M.vicnity of Tyringham

All 1,785 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 16 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Camp Greylock: 8 occurrences, 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Emery, Iron, Silica, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chrome-Magnetite MineIron, ChromiumPast Producer
Sackett Emery MineIron, EmeryOccurrence1875
Silica QuarrySilicaProducer
Silica QuarrySilicaPast Producer
Sackett Emery MineIronPast ProducerMagnetite
Sackett Emery MineIron, EmeryPast Producer
Chrome-Magnetite MineEmeryOccurrenceEmery
Melvin Emery MineEmeryOccurrence1885
Melvin Emery MineEmeryOccurrence

Every working recorded in Berkshire 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
Camp Becket0.8 miles37
Becket Center1.2 miles37
Camp Chimney Corners1.3 miles37
Becket2.3 miles37
Bonny Rigg Corners2.6 miles37
Indian Lake Estates3.1 miles37
West Becket4.4 miles38
Washington5.2 miles37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608045. 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.