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

East Charlemont, Massachusetts

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Charlemont town. It lies in ZIP code area 01370. It stands on Third Brook. The Survey maps it on the Ashfield quadrangle.

East Charlemont 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 East Charlemont, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of East Charlemont, 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

33 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of East Charlemont between 2002 and 2020, burning about 33 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 burning27
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
10 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 April 2017Debris 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
25 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 758 shown

Museums hold 758 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Charlemont between 1825 and 1975: 373 Plantae, 321 Fungi, 55 Animalia, 7 Protozoa, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Hodgdon; H. Bigelow;R. Livingstone, A. S. Goodale, A. T. Beals 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 Cinna latifolia, not of this specimenCinna latifolia (Trevir. ex Göpp.) Griseb.1847Russell
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 Equisetum variegatum, not of this specimenEquisetum variegatum Schleich. ex F.Weber & D.Mohr1874H. G. JesupSands of Deerfield River, Conway, Mass.
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 Spiranthes ochroleuca, not of this specimenSpiranthes ochroleuca (Rydb.) Rydb.1894Swinerton, J.R.Greenfield
A photograph of the species Juglans cinerea, not of this specimenJuglans cinerea L.1895C. W. TrowBuckland.

All 758 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of East Charlemont: 5 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Iron, Sulfur, 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
Gossan - Not ProspectedIron, SulfurOccurrence
Gossan In East Oxbow BrookIron, SulfurOccurrence
Gossan In East Oxbow Brook ProspectIron, SulfurOccurrence
Gossan OccurrenceIron, SulfurOccurrence
Pyrite ProspectIron, SulfurProspect
Pyrite Prospect 1 1/4 Mi. S. of Davis MineIron, SulfurOccurrencePyrite
Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Luther Smith Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
Luther Smith Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms nearby

4 since 2018

The National Weather Service names East Charlemont in 4 storm reports between 2018 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2018Thunderstorm WindEast Charlemont$7,000At 3:57 PM EST trees and wires were reported down on Avery Brook Road in Charlemont.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Charlemont$1,000In Charlemont, multiple trees were down on Route 2.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindEast Charlemont$500In Charlemont, a tree was down blocking Rt. 2 around mile marker 26.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Charlemont$500In Buckland, a pole was snapped and wires were down on Avery Rd.

Every storm 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
Buckland2.1 miles32
Shelburne Falls3.0 miles34
Dodge Corner3.2 miles32
Shattuckville3.5 miles36
Heath3.9 miles32
Buckland Four Corners4.0 miles32
Charlemont4.3 miles32
The Patten4.3 miles34

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122593962The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608169. 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.