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Crescent Mills, Massachusetts

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Russell town. It lies in ZIP code area 01071. It stands on Roaring Brook. The Survey maps it on the Woronoco quadrangle.

Crescent Mills within Hampden County

Then and now

1887 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 111 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Crescent Mills, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Crescent Mills, surveyed 1887

Compare 1887 against another survey:

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

15 since 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Crescent Mills between 2010 and 2020, burning about 379 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
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
11 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 June 2017Smoking1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 May 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 April 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 April 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 807 shown

Museums hold 807 specimens collected within 10 miles of Crescent Mills between 1822 and 1975: 300 Animalia, 282 Plantae, 214 Fungi, 9 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Lorenz, A. Pealey 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
Specimen of Lycopodiella inundata (L.) HolubLycopodiella inundata (L.) Holub1892ChapmanSouthhampton
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylloidea, not of this specimenPorella platyphylloidea (Schwein.) Lindb.1822EmmonsNorwich
A photograph of the species Carex bromoides, not of this specimenCarex bromoides Willd.1831Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Panax quinquefolius, not of this specimenPanax quinquefolius L.1831Collector unspecifiedBlandford
A photograph of the species Carex vesicaria, not of this specimenCarex vesicaria L.1836Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex vestita, not of this specimenCarex vestita Willd.1836Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Carex siccata, not of this specimenCarex siccata Dewey1844Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Amphicarpaea bracteata, not of this specimenAmphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fernald1845Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Alopecurus geniculatus, not of this specimenAlopecurus geniculatus L.1850not recorded
A photograph of the species Lactuca hirsuta, not of this specimenLactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt.1850Collector unspecified
Chelone glabra L.1891not recorded
A photograph of the species Dendroica discolor, not of this specimenDendroica discolor discolor (Vieillot, 1809)1891Clarence WatrousChester

All 807 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 15 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Crescent Mills: 6 producers, 5 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Mica, Lead, Feldspar, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kaolin QuarryBrick ClayProducer
Kaolin QuarryClayPast Producer
Pegmatite QuarryMica, FeldsparProducerFeldspar
Blandford Mica MineMica, FeldsparPast ProducerFeldspar, Mica
Donovan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Donovan Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pegmatite QuarryMica, FeldsparPast Producer
Silica QuarrySilicaProducer
Silica QuarrySilicaPast Producer
New Mine Vein OccurrenceLeadOccurrence

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Russell2.1 miles37
Montgomery3.0 miles37
Woronoco4.2 miles37
Woronoco Heights4.2 miles37
Blandford4.5 miles36
Camp Woronoak4.6 miles37
Littleville5.0 miles36
West Farms5.0 miles37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608411. 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.