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

Camp Rowe, Massachusetts

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Rowe town. It lies in ZIP code area 01367. It stands on Shippee Brook. The Survey maps it on the Rowe quadrangle.

Camp Rowe within Franklin County

Then and now

1886 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 112 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 Rowe, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Camp Rowe, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

34 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

13 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Camp Rowe between 2003 and 2020, burning about 18 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 burning10
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
10 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
18 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 April 2020Debris and open burning1.2 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
16 April 2003Smoking2.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 318 shown

Museums hold 318 specimens collected within 10 miles of Camp Rowe between 1878 and 1975: 152 Plantae, 133 Fungi, 24 Animalia, 7 Protozoa, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Ahles, H.E., Britton McCabe, C Clair Jr. 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 Cardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W.WoodCardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W.Wood1900F. F. Forbes
A photograph of the species Cyperus fuscus, not of this specimenCyperus fuscus L.1878C. E. Faxon
A photograph of the species Galeopsis ladanum, not of this specimenGaleopsis ladanum L.1878not recorded
A photograph of the species Symphyotrichum lanceolatum, not of this specimenSymphyotrichum lanceolatum (Willd.) G.L.Nesom1878T. Morong
A photograph of the species Juglans cinerea, not of this specimenJuglans cinerea L.1895C. W. TrowBuckland.
A photograph of the species Gentiana andrewsii, not of this specimenGentiana andrewsii Griseb.1901Fayette Frederick ForbesMassachusetts, Buckland, wet soil
A photograph of the species Gentianopsis crinita, not of this specimenGentianopsis crinita (Froel.) Ma1901Fayette Frederick ForbesMassachusetts, Buckland in moist soil
A photograph of the species Carex communis, not of this specimenCarex communis var. communis1902F. F. ForbesBuckland. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Viola L., not of this specimenViola L.1902Forbes, F.F.Buckland. Franklin Co.
A photograph of the species Viola blanda, not of this specimenViola blanda Willd.1902not recorded
A photograph of the species Dasyscyphus calycinus, not of this specimenDasyscyphus calycinus (Schumach.) Fuckel1927Hansbrough J. R.; Skellenger L. E.Charlemont
Morrisonia latex (Guenée, 1852)1928not recordedMonroe

All 318 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 36 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Camp Rowe: 14 occurrences, 10 prospects, 8 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Copper, Iron, Sulfur, Iron. 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
Davis MinesCopper, Sulfur, ZincPast Producer
Davis MinesSulfur, Copper, Iron, ZincPast Producer
Davis Pyrite MinesSulfur, Iron, Copper, ZincProducer1832, 1882
Hawks MineCopper, Sulfur-PyriteOccurrence1906
Hawks MineCopper, ZincPast Producer
Hawks MineCopper, ZincProspect
Charlemont-Heath AreaGraphiteOccurrenceMetamorphic
Unnamed OccurrenceGraphiteOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectGraphiteOccurrence
Pyrite ProspectIron, SulfurProspect

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Rowe0.3 miles34
Dell2.9 miles32
Zoar3.1 miles34
Monroe Bridge3.2 miles34
North Heath4.0 miles32
Heath4.2 miles32
Charlemont4.5 miles32
Hoosac Tunnel Station5.0 miles34

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 Q122597458The 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 607949. 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.