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

Colton Hollow, Massachusetts

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Monson town. It lies in ZIP code area 01057. It stands on Pinnacle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Monson quadrangle.

Colton Hollow within Hampden County

Then and now

1887 to 1985

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.

Topographic sheet of Colton Hollow, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Colton Hollow, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

33 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

70 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Colton Hollow between 2015 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. 8 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	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	9
Natural	8
Smoking	3
Debris and open burning	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
22 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
15 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 888 shown

Museums hold 888 specimens collected within 10 miles of Colton Hollow between 1845 and 1975: 509 Fungi, 215 Plantae, 145 Animalia, 14 Chromista, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. E. Kirk, A. M. Rogers; D. P. Rogers 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
Polygonum pensylvanicum L.	1897	Morris,E.L. s.n. [1897-08]	[label: Flora of North America - Herbarium of E.L. Morris] Monson. Massachussets. Rubbish heaps
Galeopsis tetrahit L.	1845	not recorded
Catharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921)	1870	Collector(s): Joseph H. Batty	South Wilbraham
Lygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.	1877	C. M. Newell
Anchistea virginica (L.) C.Presl	1879	not recorded
Calostoma cinnabarinum Desv.	1879	S. J. Harkness	Thorndike.
Calostoma fuscum (Berk.) Massee	1879	S. J. Harkness	Thorndike.
Calostoma lutescens (Schwein.) Burnap, 1897	1879	Collector unspecified	Thorndike.
Cystopteris tenuis (Michx.) Desv.	1879	not recorded
Ranunculus bulbosus L.	1891	W. W. G.
Cryptosporella anomala (Peck) Sacc.	1892	Graves H.	Palmer
Goodyera pubescens (Willd.) R.Br.	1892	E. L. Morris	Monson

All 888 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Colton Hollow: 4 past producers, 4 producers. 4 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
J J Raczka Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
J.J. Raczka Sand and Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Jurczyk Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Monson Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Monson Sand and Gravel Corp	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Palmer Bituminous Corp	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Palmer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Palmer Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hampden 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
Monson	1.9 miles	33
North Monson	2.6 miles	33
South Monson	2.6 miles	33
South Factory Village	2.9 miles	33
Tenneyville	3.6 miles	35
Palmer	3.6 miles	35
Blanchardville	3.6 miles	35
East Wilbraham	3.8 miles	37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609528. 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.