Camp Howe, Massachusetts
38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Goshen town. It lies in ZIP code area 01032. It stands on Mollison Hill. The Survey maps it on the Goshen quadrangle.
Then and now
1886 to 1997The 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.


Compare 1886 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
38 sheetsMatched 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 Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1888 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1895 USGS Chesterfield 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
- 1943 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
- 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:31680
- 1955 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:31680
- 1955 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:25000
- 1972 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:24000
- 1972 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:24000
- 1972 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:25000
- 1975 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:25000
- 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:25000
- 1997 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:25000
Fires nearby
12 since 2015The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Camp Howe between 2015 and 2020, burning about 41 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 31 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 25 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 7 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 16 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 18 April 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 16 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 15 April 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,479 shownMuseums hold 1,479 specimens collected within 10 miles of Camp Howe between 1825 and 1975: 875 Plantae, 448 Fungi, 135 Animalia, 17 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A V Osmun, A., A. Gurney 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Buellia disciformis (Fr.) Mudd | 1900 | George P. Clinton | Hammond Pond |
![]() | Graphis scripta (L.) Ach. | 1900 | George P. Clinton | Hammond Pond |
![]() | Carex pauciflora Lightf. | 1825 | Collector unspecified | Ashfield. [Inferred county from precise loc.] |
![]() | Veratrum viride subsp. viride | 1847 | not recorded | Brunswick and Goshen |
![]() | Halenia deflexa (Sm.) Griseb. | 1868 | Collector(s): Henry Griswold Jesup | Cummington |
![]() | Botrychium matricariifolium (Döll) A.Braun ex Koch | 1873 | H. G. Jesup | |
| Botrychium virginianum subsp. typicum R.T.Clausen | 1873 | Jesup, H.G. | Goshen. | |
![]() | Phegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt | 1873 | H. G. Jesup | |
![]() | Phegopteris hexagonoptera (Michx.) Fée | 1873 | H. G. Jesup | |
![]() | Botrychium lanceolatum (S.G.Gmel.) Ångstr. | 1874 | H. G. Jesup | |
![]() | Diphasiastrum tristachyum (Pursh) Holub | 1874 | Jesup, H.G. | Conway |
![]() | Equisetum variegatum Schleich. ex F.Weber & D.Mohr | 1874 | H. G. Jesup | Sands of Deerfield River, Conway, Mass. |
All 1,479 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
10 of 18 shownThe federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Camp Howe: 7 occurrences, 5 past producers, 4 producers, 2 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Lithium, Stone, Stone, Dimension, Tin, Lithium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flagstone Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Producer | Metamorphic | |
| Flagstone Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Goshen-Lithia Area | Tin, Lithium | Occurrence | 1823 | |
| North of West Whately Prospect | Lead, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Lead, Silver | Occurrence | Galena | |
| Whetstone Quarry | Stone | Producer | Metamorphic | |
| Whetstone Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Barrus Property Lithia Mine | Lithium | Occurrence | ||
| Barrus Property Lithia Mine | Lithium | Occurrence | ||
| Clark Ledge Lithia Mine | Lithium | Producer | Feldspar |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goshen | 0.9 miles | 38 | |
| Lithia | 2.3 miles | 38 | |
| Swift River | 3.5 miles | 38 | |
| Searsville | 4.3 miles | 42 | |
| Chesterfield | 4.9 miles | 38 | |
| Williamsburg | 5.2 miles | 42 | |
| Cummington | 5.4 miles | 35 | |
| Bisbee Mill | 5.5 miles | 37 |
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 Q122591290 | The 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 608599. 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.
















































