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

Cooks Corner, Massachusetts

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Granby town. It lies in ZIP code area 01033. It stands on Weston Brook. The Survey maps it on the Belchertown quadrangle.

Cooks Corner within Hampshire 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 Cooks Corner, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Cooks Corner, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

32 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.

In the 1898 county history

4,786 words on this township

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 chapter on Granby Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Granby Town - 4,786 words.

Fires nearby

41 since 2001

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Cooks Corner between 2001 and 2020, burning about 282 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1
Natural	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
29 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
28 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
20 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	5.3 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
27 June 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
27 June 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 5,644 shown

Museums hold 5,644 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cooks Corner between 1781 and 1975: 2,348 Plantae, 1,620 Fungi, 1,469 Animalia, 133 Chromista, 64 Protozoa, 9 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Albee, A. Allen, A. B. Seymour 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
Cercospora violae Sacc.	1895	Ralph E. Smith	Hothouse, Mass. Agr. College, Amherst
Actias luna Linnaeus, 1758	1896	not recorded
Plathemis lydia (Drury, 1773)	1896	not recorded
Carex argyrantha Tuck. ex Dewey	1781	H. G. Jesup	Amherst in Hampshire Co., and Leverett in Franklin Co., Massachusetts. [Inferred counties from precise loc.]
Carex foenea Willd.	1781	H. G. Jesup	And Leverett
Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle	1810	J.E. Humphrey
Ranunculus ambigens S.Watson	1831	S. Shurtleff
Dactylis glomerata L.	1839	S J Ewer
Solidago arguta Aiton	1841	Collector(s): Henry Holmes Babcock, Henry Griswold Jesup	Amherst
Phlebiella vaga (Fr.) P.Karst.	1845	Illegible collector name
Elodea nuttallii (Planch.) H.St.John	1847	H. G. Jesup
Meleagris gallopavo silvestris Vieillot, 1817	1847	William D. Whitney	Mount Tom

All 5,644 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Cooks Corner: 3 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Flagstone. 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
Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Sandstone
Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Belchertown Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Belchertown Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Amherst Plant No. 5	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Amherst Quarry Plant#5	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Granby Pit Ii	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

Storms nearby

7 since 2012

The National Weather Service names Cooks Corner in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Cooks Corner	$8,000	On the west side of Belchertown, a tree was reported down on a house on Boardman Street. North of town, multiple trees were down on Orchard Road. In the eastern part of Belchertown, south of the Quabbin Reservoir, multiple trees were down on East Street.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Cooks Corner	$3,000	In Granby, Harris Street and surrounding streets had several trees and large limbs down.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Cooks Corner	$2,000	At 5:03 PM EST winds from a thunderstorm brought a large tree down across Batchelor Street in Granby, blocking the street.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Cooks Corner	$2,000	At 1015 PM EST, a large tree was reported down on U.S. Route 202 near the Belchertown and Granby town line.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Cooks Corner	$1,300	In Belchertown, a tree was down on power lines on Rockrimmon Street and a tree was down on Boardman Street.
August 2019	Hail	Cooks Corner	-	Another 1 inch hail report was received from Belchertown, on Stebbins Street.
July 2012	Flood	Cooks Corner	-	Route 202 near the Granby line was flooded with six to eight inches of water.

Every storm recorded in Hampshire 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
Granby	2.8 miles	44
Highland Glen Estates	3.1 miles	32
Aldrich Mills	3.6 miles	44
Dwight	3.6 miles	32
Belchertown	3.7 miles	32
Moody Corner	4.7 miles	44
South Amherst	4.7 miles	44
South Quabbin Villa	4.9 miles	32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609135. 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.