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Egremont Plain, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Egremont town. It lies in ZIP code area 01230. It stands on Baldwin Hill. The Survey maps it on the Egremont quadrangle.

Egremont Plain within Berkshire County

Then and now

1885 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Egremont Plain, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Egremont Plain, surveyed 1885

Topographic sheets covering this place

42 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

36 since 2000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Egremont Plain between 2000 and 2018, burning about 17 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
13 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 August 2016Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 August 2017Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts 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 1,416 shown

Museums hold 1,416 specimens collected within 10 miles of Egremont Plain between 1833 and 1975: 1,089 Plantae, 169 Fungi, 152 Animalia, 3 Chromista, 3 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Brown, A. F. Beale, A. L. Ericson 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 Equisetum sylvaticum L.Equisetum sylvaticum L.1900Day, M.E.Sheffield.
A photograph of the species Betula alleghaniensis, not of this specimenBetula alleghaniensis Britton1833Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Betula pumila, not of this specimenBetula pumila L.1833Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Carex utriculata, not of this specimenCarex utriculata Boott1833W. L. Worcester
A photograph of the species Dennstaedtia punctilobula, not of this specimenDennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore1833Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Gymnocarpium dryopteris, not of this specimenGymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman1833Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Percopsis omiscomaycus, not of this specimenPercopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)1860Britton McCabeGreen R. (trib. of Housatonic R.), 1 mi. S of Great Barrington on Rt. 23
A photograph of the species Platanthera peramoena, not of this specimenPlatanthera peramoena A.Gray1863J. T. StewartGlendale
A photograph of the species Spiranthes magnicamporum, not of this specimenSpiranthes magnicamporum Sheviak1863J. T. StewartGlendale
A photograph of the species Cicindela purpurea, not of this specimenCicindela purpurea purpurea Olivier, 17901867F. L. MilesAusterlitz
A photograph of the species Bartramia pomiformis, not of this specimenBartramia pomiformis Hedw.1895not recorded
A photograph of the species Diphyscium foliosum, not of this specimenDiphyscium foliosum (Hedw.) D.Mohr1897Elizabeth G. BrittonMount Washington

All 1,416 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Egremont Plain: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Mitchell Limonite MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Mitchell Limonite MineIronPast Producer
Mitchell MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Tremper MineIronOccurrenceLimonite
Tremper MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Tremper MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

5 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Egremont Plain in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 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
July 2002Thunderstorm WindEgremont Plain$5,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindEgremont Plain$3,000An extremely unstable airmass on June 7 resulted in scattered severe thunderstorms late in the afternoon across Berkshire County. The thunderstorms produced wind gusts strong enough to bring down numerous trees along Rt. 23 in Egremont Plain.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindEgremont Plain-Trees and wires were downed.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindEgremont Plain-One tree and wires were reported down in Egremont Plain due to thunderstorm winds.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindEgremont Plain-Trees were reported down in Egremont Plain due to 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
North Egremont1.5 miles42
South Egremont1.7 miles42
Berkshire Heights2.4 miles40
Great Barrington2.9 miles40
Brookside3.2 miles40
Alford3.5 miles42
Belcher Square3.7 miles40
Van Deusenville4.0 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 Q122568381The 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 607406. 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.