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

East Renfrew, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Adams town. It lies in ZIP code area 01220. It stands on Southwick Brook. The Survey maps it on the North Adams quadrangle.

East Renfrew 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 Renfrew, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of East Renfrew, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

39 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

37 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of East Renfrew between 2015 and 2018, burning about 31 acres in total. 3 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 burning14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking5
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
25 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 August 2017Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 August 2017Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 July 2018Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 July 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 July 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 May 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 878 shown

Museums hold 878 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Renfrew between 1828 and 1975: 437 Plantae, 221 Animalia, 199 Fungi, 11 Protozoa, 7 Unrecorded, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A K Harrison, A Schwartz, A. H. Gustafson 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 Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Richardson, 1823Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Richardson, 18231898J. R. Churchill
Specimen of Carex pensylvanica Lam.Carex pensylvanica Lam.1898J. R. Churchill
Specimen of Lycopodium annotinum var. pungens (Desv.) La Pylaie ex Desv.Lycopodium annotinum var. pungens (Desv.) La Pylaie ex Desv.1898Kofoid, C.A.North Adams.
A photograph of the species Carex aestivalis, not of this specimenCarex aestivalis M.A.Curtis ex A.Gray1828Collector unknownSaddle Mountain, near Williamstown.
A photograph of the species Carex emmonsii, not of this specimenCarex emmonsii var. muhlenbergii (A.Gray ex Torrey) Rettig1828Collector unspecifiedWilliamstown. [Inferred locality from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Cystopteris bulbifera, not of this specimenCystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.1828Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Dryopteris goldiana, not of this specimenDryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray1828Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Fraxinus americana, not of this specimenFraxinus americana L.1828J. Torrey
Jamesoniella autumnalis (DC.) Steph.1828Ebenezer Emmons
A photograph of the species Tilia americana, not of this specimenTilia americana L.1828Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Scorzoneroides autumnalis, not of this specimenScorzoneroides autumnalis (L.) Moench1850not recorded
A photograph of the species Spiraea tomentosa, not of this specimenSpiraea tomentosa L.1850not recorded

All 878 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 14 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of East Renfrew: 6 past producers, 5 producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Calcium. 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
Pfizer IncCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
New England Lime Company QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerSedimentary
North Adams Lime QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerStratabound
North Adams Lime QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerStratabound
Adams Quarry & Plant Pfizer IncStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
New England Lime Company QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
North Adams Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
North Adams Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Adams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Adams PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Renfrew0.6 miles39
Zylonite1.1 miles39
Adams1.2 miles38
Bowens Corners1.5 miles38
Maple Grove2.1 miles40
Little Egypt2.4 miles38
Cheshire Harbor3.6 miles40
Arnoldville3.7 miles40

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 Q122566139The 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 1978707. 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.