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East Northfield Station, Massachusetts

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Northfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 01360. It stands on Newton Brook. The Survey maps it on the Northfield quadrangle.

East Northfield Station 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 Northfield Station, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of East Northfield Station, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

36 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

12 since 2016

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of East Northfield Station between 2016 and 2020, burning about 8 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 burning10
Other causes1
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
5 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 April 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
14 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 March 2019Other causes2.0 acresMassachusetts 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 642 shown

Museums hold 642 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Northfield Station between 1867 and 1975: 294 Animalia, 126 Plantae, 111 Fungi, 111 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S Pease, A. J. Grout, A. M. Ottley 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 Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) WattDryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt1896Leonard, F.E.Northfield, Mass.
unnamed (fossil)1867Othniel C. MarshBlack shale (property of T. M. Stoughton, 1871 Beer County map, previously owned by Dr. Roswell Field) south side of Connecticut River, Horse Race, Montague
A photograph of the species Potamogeton bicupulatus, not of this specimenPotamogeton bicupulatus Fernald1895A. J. GroutLily Pond
Rhexia virginica L.1895A. J. GroutLily Pond
A photograph of the species Carex plantaginea, not of this specimenCarex plantaginea Lam.1896Sydney HarrisWoods near Factory Village [Note: Location found by Geolocate is in Franklin County]
A photograph of the species Dryopteris intermedia, not of this specimenDryopteris intermedia (Muhl. ex Willd.) A.Gray1896Leonard, F.E.Northfield
A photograph of the species Cronartium comptoniae, not of this specimenCronartium comptoniae Arthur1928Spaulding P.Turners Falls
A photograph of the species Apanteles Förster, not of this specimenApanteles Förster, 18631929J. SchaffnerBernardston
A photograph of the species Fusicladium saliciperdum, not of this specimenFusicladium saliciperdum (Allesch. & Tubeuf) Lind1929Spaulding P.Leyden
A photograph of the species Lycopodium obscurum, not of this specimenLycopodium obscurum L.1930M.M. MetcalfNorthfield, Massachusetts.
Ophioglossum pusillum Raf.1930not recordedNorthfield.
A photograph of the species Triodopsis tridentata, not of this specimenTriodopsis tridentata (Say, 1817)1945Athearn, EleanorTurners Falls, Near Connecticut River

All 642 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of East Northfield Station: 4 producers, 4 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Northfield Plant #38Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Northfield Washed Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Amphibolite Rock Quarry NStonePast Producer
Amphibolite Rock Quarry NStonePast Producer
Amphibolite Rock Quarry No. Bj5Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Amphibolite Rock Quarry No. Bj6Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Diabase Rock Quarry No. BStonePast Producer
Diabase Rock Quarry No. Bj4Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
West Northfield0.2 miles36
Satans Kingdom1.3 miles36
Northfield2.1 miles36
East Northfield2.5 miles36
Mount Hermon Station3.3 miles36
Mount Hermon4.1 miles36
Munns Ferry4.9 miles36
Cold Spring5.1 miles37

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 Q122595269The 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 609269. 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.