Cooleyville, Massachusetts
32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1990. It stands in New Salem town. It lies in ZIP code area 01355. It stands on Camel Brook. The Survey maps it on the Quabbin Reservoir quadrangle.
Then and now
1887 to 1990The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1887 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
32 sheetsMatched 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 Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1890 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
- 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
- 1942 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Quabbin Reservoir quadrangle1:31680
- 1944 USGS Quabbin Reservoir quadrangle1:31680
- 1944 USGS Quabbin Reservoir quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1952 USGS Quabbin Reservoir quadrangle1:31680
- 1952 USGS Quabbin Reservoir quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Quabbin Reservoir quadrangle1:31680
- 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
- 1967 USGS Quabbin Reservoir quadrangle1:25000
- 1967 USGS Quabbin Reservoir quadrangle1:24000
- 1975 USGS Quabbin Reservoir quadrangle1:25000
- 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:25000
- 1990 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:25000
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Unattributed, . Library of Congress
Fires nearby
8 since 2016The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Cooleyville between 2016 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. None 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 | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 June 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 24 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 23 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 15 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 13 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 24 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 11 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 15 October 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.5 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 8,001 shownMuseums hold 8,001 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cooleyville between 1781 and 1975: 3,812 Animalia, 2,023 Fungi, 1,957 Plantae, 124 Chromista, 73 Protozoa, 12 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Allen, A. B. Seymour, A. Buckman 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Cercospora violae Sacc. | 1895 | Ralph E. Smith | Hothouse, Mass. Agr. College, Amherst |
![]() | Septoria petroselini Desm. | 1895 | R. E. Smith | Hothouse, Mass. Agr. College |
![]() | Bombus bimaculatus Cresson, 1863 | 1899 | [Not Stated] | Hatch Experiment Station |
![]() | 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 | |
![]() | Phlebiella vaga (Fr.) P.Karst. | 1845 | Illegible collector name | |
![]() | Elodea nuttallii (Planch.) H.St.John | 1847 | H. G. Jesup | |
![]() | Biatora sanguineoatra (Wulfen) Tuck. | 1848 | Tuckerman Edward | |
![]() | Lecidea sanguineoatra (Wulfen) Ach. | 1848 | Edward Tuckerman |
All 8,001 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
2 since 2014The National Weather Service names Cooleyville in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2018 | Lightning | Cooleyville | $8,000 | At 1:38 PM EST, a house fire due to lightning was reported at 16 Cooleyville Road in New Salem. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cooleyville | $5,000 | Trees and wires were downed on Cooleyville Road and Jennie Morr Road in New Salem. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Prescott | 1.6 miles | 32 | |
| Shutesbury | 2.0 miles | 35 | |
| New Salem | 3.6 miles | 32 | |
| Millington (historical) | 4.0 miles | 32 | |
| South Wendell | 4.1 miles | 32 | |
| Locks Village | 4.1 miles | 32 | |
| Dudleyville | 4.2 miles | 35 | |
| Baconville | 4.6 miles | 35 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609401. 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.
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.











































