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

Cold Spring, Massachusetts

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Otis town. It lies in ZIP code area 01253. It stands on Miner Brook. The Survey maps it on the Otis quadrangle.

Cold Spring within Berkshire County

Then and now

1888 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cold Spring, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Cold Spring, surveyed 1888

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

14 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Cold Spring between 2015 and 2019, burning about 17 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
9 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 July 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 May 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 May 2016Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 May 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts 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 1,744 shown

Museums hold 1,744 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cold Spring between 1872 and 1975: 874 Animalia, 680 Plantae, 188 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & A. C. Seymour, A. E. Treat 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 Lygodium palmatum, not of this specimenLygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.1872Miller, E.S.East Hampton
A photograph of the species Botrychium lanceolatum, not of this specimenBotrychium lanceolatum (S.G.Gmel.) Ångstr.1873S. M. Piper
A photograph of the species Eleusine indica, not of this specimenEleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.1874Frederick N. Pease
A photograph of the species Gentianella quinquefolia, not of this specimenGentianella quinquefolia subsp. quinquefolia1875not recorded
A photograph of the species Leucobryum glaucum, not of this specimenLeucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ångstr.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
A photograph of the species Euphorbia polygonifolia, not of this specimenEuphorbia polygonifolia L.1879not recorded
A photograph of the species Balansia hypoxylon, not of this specimenBalansia hypoxylon (Peck) G.F.Atk.1882A. B. Seymour
Baeomyces roseus Pers.1895George T. MooreChestnut Hill
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

All 1,744 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
East Otis2.5 miles37
Otis Wood Lanes2.6 miles37
Otis2.8 miles37
Montville3.7 miles38
West New Boston3.8 miles39
New Boston4.2 miles39
West Otis4.3 miles38
Sandisfield4.6 miles38

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608028. 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.