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East Shelburne, Massachusetts

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Shelburne town. It lies in ZIP code area 01370. It stands on Stewart Brook. The Survey maps it on the Colrain quadrangle.

East Shelburne within Franklin County

Then and now

1890 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 108 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 Shelburne, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of East Shelburne, surveyed 1890

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

35 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of East Shelburne between 2002 and 2020, burning about 24 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 burning23
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
21 June 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 May 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
31 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
31 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
31 May 2018Debris 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
30 April 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 April 2019Debris 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 1,706 shown

Museums hold 1,706 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Shelburne between 1822 and 1975: 876 Plantae, 432 Animalia, 278 Fungi, 112 Unrecorded, 7 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S Pease, A. K. Harrison, A. S. Goodale 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 Ptilidium pulcherrimum, not of this specimenPtilidium pulcherrimum (Weber) Hampe1822Ebenezer Emmons
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
unnamed (fossil)1867Othniel C. Marshblack sh, [property of T.M. Stoughton, 1871 Beers County map, previously owned by Dr. Roswell Field], S side of Connecticut River, Horse Race, Montague
A photograph of the species Carex prasina, not of this specimenCarex prasina Wahlenb.1892J. R. ChurchillMontague
A photograph of the species Carex torta, not of this specimenCarex torta Boott1892J. R. ChurchillMontague
Rhexia virginica L.1892not recordedMillers Falls
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.
A photograph of the species Botrypus virginianus, not of this specimenBotrypus virginianus (L.) Michx.1896W. W. Bailey
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]

All 1,706 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of East Shelburne: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension. 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
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

5 since 2020

The National Weather Service names East Shelburne in 5 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 5 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindEast Shelburne$1,300In East Shelburne, trees and power lines were downed on Route 2 near the Shelburne/Greenfield town line. Time estimated by radar.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Shelburne$800In Colrain, a tree and power lines were down on Van Nuys Rd.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindEast Shelburne$800In Greenfield, a tree was down on wires on Summit Drive.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Shelburne$500In Shelburne Falls, a tree was down on Fiske Mill Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Shelburne-In Colrain, there was a tree down on wires on Smead Hill 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
Fort Morris1.4 miles36
The Patten2.3 miles34
Fort Lucas2.4 miles36
Griswoldville2.9 miles36
Colrain3.1 miles36
Shattuckville3.2 miles36
Shelburne3.3 miles34
Lyonsville3.6 miles36

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 Q122540829The 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 608170. 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.