East Village, Massachusetts
35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Amherst Town City. It lies in ZIP code area 01002. It stands on Hearthstone Brook. The Survey maps it on the Shutesbury quadrangle.
Then and now
1887 to 1990The 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.


Compare 1887 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
35 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1887 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1890 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
- 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
- 1942 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:31680
- 1942 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
- 1943 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:25000
- 1964 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:24000
- 1964 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:25000
- 1964 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:24000
- 1975 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:25000
- 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:25000
- 1990 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:25000
Fires nearby
50 since 2003The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of East Village between 2003 and 2020, burning about 42 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 28 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 8 July 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 23 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | 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 |
| 27 June 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 10,101 shownMuseums hold 10,101 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Village between 1781 and 1975: 4,206 Animalia, 3,514 Plantae, 2,156 Fungi, 132 Chromista, 80 Protozoa, 12 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A V Osmun, A. Albee, A. Allen 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Cercospora violae Sacc. | 1895 | Ralph E. Smith | Hothouse, Mass. Agr. College, Amherst |
![]() | Actias luna Linnaeus, 1758 | 1896 | not recorded | |
![]() | Plathemis lydia (Drury, 1773) | 1896 | not recorded | |
![]() | 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 | |
![]() | Ranunculus ambigens S.Watson | 1831 | S. Shurtleff | |
![]() | Kalmia angustifolia f. angustifolia | 1838 | L. DeWette | Northampton. |
![]() | Kalmia latifolia var. latifolia | 1838 | L. DeWette | Northampton. |
![]() | Pogonia ophioglossoides (L.) Ker Gawl. | 1838 | L. DeWette | Northampton. |
![]() | Dactylis glomerata L. | 1839 | S J Ewer | |
![]() | Solidago arguta Aiton | 1841 | Collector(s): Henry Holmes Babcock, Henry Griswold Jesup | Amherst |
All 10,101 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
10 of 11 shownThe federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of East Village: 6 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Brick Clay, Clay, Asbestos. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leverett Barite Prospect | Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, Copper | Occurrence | Replacement Vein | |
| Pelham Quarry | Asbestos, Emery | Past Producer | ||
| Clay Pit | Brick Clay | Producer | Clay | |
| Clay Pit | Brick Clay | Producer | Clay | |
| Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| 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 |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amherst Center | 1.2 miles | 42 | |
| Amherst | 1.4 miles | 42 | |
| West Pelham | 1.4 miles | 35 | |
| Mill Valley | 1.9 miles | 44 | |
| Cushman | 2.6 miles | 42 | |
| South Amherst | 2.6 miles | 44 | |
| Plainville | 2.8 miles | 42 | |
| Factory Hollow | 2.9 miles | 42 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609147. 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.














































