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

East Lee, Massachusetts

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Lee town. It lies in ZIP code area 01238. It stands on Greenwater Brook. The Survey maps it on the East Lee quadrangle.

East Lee within Berkshire County

Then and now

1886 to 1997

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 East Lee, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of East Lee, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

38 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

22 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of East Lee between 2003 and 2020, burning about 12 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
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Other causes	2
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
18 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 September 2016	Other causes	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
31 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
7 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 May 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 May 2020	Other causes	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,292 shown

Museums hold 2,292 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Lee between 1833 and 1975: 1,118 Animalia, 869 Plantae, 297 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Evans, A. Brown, A. E. Treat 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
Potamogeton pusillus subsp. tenuissimus (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) K.Richt.	1900	P. B. Weatherbee
Betula alleghaniensis Britton	1833	Collector unknown
Betula pumila L.	1833	Collector unspecified
Carex utriculata Boott	1833	W. L. Worcester
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1833	Collector unknown
Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman	1833	Collector unknown
Parnassia caroliniana Michx.	1834	not recorded
Platanthera peramoena A.Gray	1863	J. T. Stewart	Glendale
Spiranthes magnicamporum Sheviak	1863	J. T. Stewart	Glendale
Homalia trichomanoides (Hedw.) Schimp.	1867	E. C. Howe
Acer saccharum Marshall	1897	Vail, A.M.	Tyringham
Acer spicatum Lam.	1897	Vail, A.M.	Vicinity of Tyringham

All 2,292 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of East Lee: 4 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Marble, Dimension, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Lee Lime Corp	Calcium	Past Producer	Calcite
Lee Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lee Marble Inc Qy & Plant	Marble, Dimension	Producer
Lee White Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer	Metamorphic
Abby Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Abby and Sons Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
East Lee Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lenox Dale Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Lenox Dale Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

4 since 2015

The National Weather Service names East Lee in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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 2021	Flash Flood	East Lee	-	There was a report of flowing water moving across Housatonic Street.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	East Lee	-	Parts of Route 20 were closed in Lee due to downed trees.
May 2016	Flash Flood	East Lee	-	Heavy rainfall from slow moving thunderstorms resulted in flash flooding in Lee. Forest Street was impassable due to high water and debris.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	East Lee	-	Large branches were reported down at the intersection of East and Maple Street in Lee due to thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Berkshire 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
Leisure Lee	1.3 miles	38
Lee	1.3 miles	38
Lenox Dale	2.9 miles	38
South Lee	3.1 miles	42
Tyringham	3.7 miles	38
Lenox Station	3.8 miles	38
Wheatleigh	4.8 miles	42
Mahkeenac Heights	5.1 miles	42

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 Q122545198

The 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 607401. 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.