Cold Spring, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1887 1985

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.

• 1887 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1919 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1946 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:31680
• 1947 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:25000
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:31680
• 1954 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Palmer 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
• 1969 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:24000
• 1969 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:25000
• 1969 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:25000
• 1975 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1898 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Cold Spring between 2015 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 4 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Gibbs Crossing
• Bardwell
• West Ware
• Belchertown
• South Quabbin Villa
• Ware Center

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Museums hold 457 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cold Spring between 1857 and 1975: 201 Plantae, 146 Animalia, 104 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Gibson, A. Clark, A. E. Touey 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
	Krigia virginica (L.) Willd.	1857	not recorded
	Carex cephalophora Muhl. ex Willd.	1858	J. Blake
	Carex vestita Willd.	1858	J. Blake	Ware
	Castilleja coccinea (L.) Spreng.	1858	A. P. Chute
	Celastrus scandens L.	1858	s.coll.
	Ranunculus flabellaris Raf.	1858	A. P. Chute
	Trifolium agrarium L.	1858	not recorded
	Zizia aurea (L.) W.D.J.Koch	1859	A. P. Chute
	Collema microptychium Tuck.	1861	E. Tuckerman	Amherst, Parttrigg's Swamp
	Collema flaccidum (Ach.) Ach.	1868	E. Tuckerman	Amherst, South Amherst
	Conopholis americana (L.) Wallr.	1868	Collector(s): Henry Griswold Jesup	Mt. Holyoke
	Carex tribuloides Wahlenb.	1870	H. G. Jesup	Belchertown

All 457 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cold Spring: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609527. 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.