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

Cheshire Harbor, Massachusetts

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Cheshire town. It lies in ZIP code area 01225. It stands on Bassett Brook. The Survey maps it on the Cheshire quadrangle.

Cheshire Harbor within Berkshire 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 Cheshire Harbor, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet of Cheshire Harbor, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

40 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

19 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Cheshire Harbor between 2015 and 2018, burning about 10 acres in total. 3 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 burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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
25 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
2 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
28 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 June 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
25 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,050 shown

Museums hold 1,050 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cheshire Harbor between 1828 and 1975: 562 Plantae, 241 Animalia, 225 Fungi, 11 Protozoa, 8 Unrecorded, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A K Harrison, A Schwartz, A. H. Gustafson 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Richardson, 1823	1898	J. R. Churchill
Carex pensylvanica Lam.	1898	J. R. Churchill
Lycopodium annotinum var. pungens (Desv.) La Pylaie ex Desv.	1898	Kofoid, C.A.	North Adams.
Carex aestivalis M.A.Curtis ex A.Gray	1828	Collector unknown	Saddle Mountain, near Williamstown.
Carex emmonsii var. muhlenbergii (A.Gray ex Torrey) Rettig	1828	Collector unspecified	Williamstown. [Inferred locality from precise loc.]
Cystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.	1828	Collector unspecified
Dryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray	1828	Collector unspecified
Fraxinus americana L.	1828	J. Torrey
Jamesoniella autumnalis (DC.) Steph.	1828	Ebenezer Emmons
Tilia americana L.	1828	Collector unspecified
Scorzoneroides autumnalis (L.) Moench	1850	not recorded
Spiraea tomentosa L.	1850	not recorded

All 1,050 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 19 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Cheshire Harbor: 9 past producers, 5 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Pfizer Inc	Calcium	Past Producer	Calcite
New England Lime Company Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Sedimentary
United States Gypsum Company Marble Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Stratabound
Adams Quarry & Plant Pfizer Inc	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
New England Lime Company Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
United States Gypsum Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Adams Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Adams Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Cheshire Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Curran Highway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

3 since 2014

The National Weather Service names Cheshire Harbor in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheshire Harbor	-	A tree was downed with marble sized hail.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheshire Harbor	-	A telephone pole and wires were downed on Bellevue Avenue in North Adams due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Cheshire Harbor	-	Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused flash flooding in Savoy. A portion of Route 116 near the Savoy-Chester town line was damaged due to the flooding.

Every storm 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Arnoldville	0.6 miles	40
Town Crest Village	1.2 miles	40
Maple Grove	1.6 miles	40
Bowens Corners	2.4 miles	38
Adams	2.4 miles	38
Cheshire	2.5 miles	40
Little Egypt	3.3 miles	38
Renfrew	3.4 miles	39

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 Q122597061

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 607348. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.