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

Dodge Corner, Massachusetts

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Hawley town. It lies in ZIP code area 01339. It stands on Hog Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Ashfield quadrangle.

Dodge Corner within Franklin County

Then and now

1886 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dodge Corner, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Dodge Corner, surveyed 1886

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.

Fires nearby

21 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Dodge Corner between 2002 and 2020, burning about 17 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
13 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
10 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 April 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 April 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
16 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 714 shown

Museums hold 714 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dodge Corner between 1825 and 1975: 340 Plantae, 309 Fungi, 54 Animalia, 7 Protozoa, 3 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gurney, A. R. Hodgdon; H. Bigelow;R. Livingstone, A. S. Goodale 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 Cardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W.WoodCardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W.Wood1900F. F. Forbes
A photograph of the species Carex pauciflora, not of this specimenCarex pauciflora Lightf.1825Collector unspecifiedAshfield. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Halenia deflexa, not of this specimenHalenia deflexa (Sm.) Griseb.1868Collector(s): Henry Griswold JesupCummington
A photograph of the species Phegopteris hexagonoptera, not of this specimenPhegopteris hexagonoptera (Michx.) Fée1873H. G. Jesup
A photograph of the species Alnus viridis, not of this specimenAlnus viridis (Chaix) DC.1874E. F. BishopDeerfield River
A photograph of the species Diphasiastrum tristachyum, not of this specimenDiphasiastrum tristachyum (Pursh) Holub1874Jesup, H.G.Conway
A photograph of the species Lactuca hirsuta, not of this specimenLactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt.1874H. G. Jesup
A photograph of the species Lobelia kalmii, not of this specimenLobelia kalmii L.1874not recorded
A photograph of the species Lycopus uniflorus, not of this specimenLycopus uniflorus Michx.1874H. G. Jesup
A photograph of the species Lythrum salicaria, not of this specimenLythrum salicaria L.1874H. G. Jesup
A photograph of the species Phegopteris connectilis, not of this specimenPhegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt1892B. ShimekCummington.
A photograph of the species Juglans cinerea, not of this specimenJuglans cinerea L.1895C. W. TrowBuckland.

All 714 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 18 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Dodge Corner: 10 occurrences, 6 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sulfur, Iron, Iron, Sulfur. 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
Hawks MineCopper, Sulfur-PyriteOccurrence1906
Hawks MineCopper, ZincPast Producer
Hawks MineCopper, ZincProspect
Copper ProspectCopper, Sulfur-PyriteOccurrenceMetamorphic
Copper ProspectCopper, Sulfur-PyriteOccurrence
Copper ProspectCopper, Sulfur-PyriteOccurrenceMetamorphic
Gossan - Not ProspectedIron, SulfurOccurrence
Gossan In East Oxbow BrookIron, SulfurOccurrence
Pyrite Prospect 1 1/4 Mi. S. of Davis MineIron, SulfurOccurrencePyrite
Gossan In East Oxbow Brook ProspectIron, SulfurOccurrence

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Charlemont2.4 miles32
Buckland2.7 miles32
Hawley3.1 miles34
Buckland Four Corners3.2 miles32
East Charlemont3.2 miles32
Watson4.4 miles32
Dell4.9 miles32
South Hawley4.9 miles34

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608167. 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.