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

East Windsor, Massachusetts

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Windsor town. It lies in ZIP code area 01270. It stands on Alder Meadow Brook. The Survey maps it on the Worthington quadrangle.

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

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 222 shown

Museums hold 222 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Windsor between 1867 and 1975: 118 Fungi, 59 Animalia, 38 Plantae, 5 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. K. Harrison, A. K. Harrison, Florence, Ahles, H.E. 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 Bombus ternarius Say, 1837Bombus ternarius Say, 18371898[Not Stated]Hinsdale
A photograph of the species Homalia jamesii, not of this specimenHomalia jamesii Schimp.1867unknownWaconah Falls State Park
A photograph of the species Actaea rubra, not of this specimenActaea rubra (Aiton) Willd.1901Joseph R. Churchill
A photograph of the species Pachynematus kirbyi, not of this specimenPachynematus kirbyi (Dahlbom, 1835)1903not recorded
A photograph of the species Atkinsonella hypoxylon, not of this specimenAtkinsonella hypoxylon (Peck) Diehl1909BrittonSavoy
Phragmidium subcorticium (Schrank) G.Winter1909Britton W. E.Savoy Center
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta minima, not of this specimenPhyllosticta minima Gucevi1909Britton W. E.Savoy Center
A photograph of the species Puccinia asterum, not of this specimenPuccinia asterum (Schwein.) F.Kern1909BrittonSavoy Center
A photograph of the species Roestelia cornuta, not of this specimenRoestelia cornuta Fr.1909Britton W. E.Savoy Center
A photograph of the species Tubercularia vulgaris, not of this specimenTubercularia vulgaris Tode1926Scherer C. M.Dalton
unnamed1927Hansbrough J. R.Dalton
A photograph of the species Auricularia auricula, not of this specimenAuricularia auricula (L.) Underw.1927Hansbrough J. R.Hinsdale

All 222 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of East Windsor: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone. 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
Talc ProspectTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceMetamorphic
Talc ProspectTalc-SoapstoneProspect

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

2 since 2008

The National Weather Service names East Windsor in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2011: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2011HailEast Windsor-Hail 4 inches in diameter (measured) was reported during a thunderstorm in the Village of East Windsor.
September 2008Thunderstorm WindEast Windsor-Large tree limbs, approximately 6 inches in diameter, were downed on East Windsor Road in East Windsor due to strong thunderstorm winds.

Every storm 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
Peru4.2 miles37
Windsor4.5 miles38
Camp Danbee5.3 miles37
Camp Ashmere5.5 miles37
Camp Taconic5.9 miles37
Camp Lenore6.2 miles37
Savoy6.5 miles38
Beechwood Estates6.7 miles37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607887. 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.

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.