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

East Leverett, Massachusetts

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Leverett town. It lies in ZIP code area 01054. It stands on Roaring Brook. The Survey maps it on the Shutesbury quadrangle.

East Leverett within Franklin County

Then and now

1887 to 1990

The 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.

Topographic sheet of East Leverett, surveyed 1990

Topographic sheet of East Leverett, surveyed 1887

Compare 1887 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

35 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

36 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of East Leverett between 2002 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 July 2016	Natural	5.3 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
29 June 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
25 June 2020	Natural	56 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	JOSHUA HILL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 9,580 shown

Museums hold 9,580 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Leverett between 1781 and 1975: 4,015 Animalia, 3,157 Plantae, 2,194 Fungi, 127 Chromista, 75 Protozoa, 12 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A V Osmun, A. Allen, A. B. Seymour 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
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
Ptilidium pulcherrimum (Weber) Hampe	1822	Ebenezer Emmons
Ranunculus ambigens S.Watson	1831	S. Shurtleff
Dactylis glomerata L.	1839	S J Ewer
Solidago arguta Aiton	1841	Collector(s): Henry Holmes Babcock, Henry Griswold Jesup	Amherst
Phlebiella vaga (Fr.) P.Karst.	1845	Illegible collector name
Elodea nuttallii (Planch.) H.St.John	1847	H. G. Jesup

All 9,580 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 12 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of East Leverett: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Copper, Barium-Barite, Silver, Zinc. 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
Leverett Barite Prospect	Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, Copper	Occurrence	Replacement Vein
Leverett Lead Mines	Lead, Copper, Barium-Barite, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer	Barite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Leverett Lead Mines	Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer
Leverett Prospects	Barium-Barite, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Leverett Lead Mine	Lead, Copper	Past Producer	Vein
Blakeslee-Arpaia-Chapman S&G Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
D D Ruxton Co Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Leverett Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pulpit Hill Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sunderland Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms nearby

2 since 2022

The National Weather Service names East Leverett in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2023: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	East Leverett	$1,300	In East Leverett, trees and wires were down on Shutesbury Road. Time estimated by radar.
September 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	East Leverett	$1,000	In Leverett multiple trees were down on wires on Shutesbury 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Leverett	1.4 miles	42
Pratt Corner	1.6 miles	35
Baconville	2.3 miles	35
Leverett Station	2.4 miles	42
Dudleyville	3.6 miles	35
Moores Corner	3.8 miles	35
Shutesbury	3.9 miles	35
North Leverett	4.8 miles	32

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 Q122566559

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 609146. 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.