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Feeding Hills, Massachusetts

48 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Agawam Town City. It lies in ZIP code area 01030. It stands on Liswell Hill. The Survey maps it on the West Springfield quadrangle.

Feeding Hills within Hampden County

Then and now

1886 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Feeding Hills, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Feeding Hills, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

48 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

211 since 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Feeding Hills between 2010 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined108
Equipment and vehicle use61
Natural14
Recreation and ceremony14
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2018Natural2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,385 shown

Museums hold 2,385 specimens collected within 10 miles of Feeding Hills between 1844 and 1975: 1,168 Fungi, 599 Plantae, 543 Animalia, 53 Chromista, 22 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & Clara E. Cummings, A. B. Seymour; (a) A. B. Seymour, (b) Martin 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 FungiFungi1890Seymour, Arthur BlissGranville
Specimen of Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1890Arthur B. SeymourGranville
Specimen of Sphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.Sphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.1893Daniel C. Eaton
A photograph of the species Carex siccata, not of this specimenCarex siccata Dewey1844Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Amphicarpaea bracteata, not of this specimenAmphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fernald1845Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Galeopsis tetrahit, not of this specimenGaleopsis tetrahit L.1845not recorded
A photograph of the species Alopecurus geniculatus, not of this specimenAlopecurus geniculatus L.1850not recorded
A photograph of the species Lactuca hirsuta, not of this specimenLactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt.1850Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Carex canescens, not of this specimenCarex canescens L.1852Collector unknownWestfield.
A photograph of the species Carex pallescens, not of this specimenCarex pallescens L.1852Collector unknownWestfield
A photograph of the species Eurybia schreberi, not of this specimenEurybia schreberi (Nees) Nees1852C. A. Shurtleff
Alnus incana (L.) Moench1891unknownWoods Hall.

All 2,385 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 30 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Feeding Hills: 17 past producers, 9 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone, Copper. 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
Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
W. New England Smelting Works IncCopperProducer
Baxter Sand and Gravel IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Chase PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
John PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
John S Lane and Son IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Johns PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lane Construction CorpSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Pochassic Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Storms nearby

4 since 2017

The National Weather Service names Feeding Hills in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
October 2020Thunderstorm WindFeeding Hills$15,000In Agawam, a tree was down on three cars on Pine Street at Barry Street. No injuries were reported. Also, trees were down in the Feeding Hills and other sections of town.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindFeeding Hills$1,000Tree down on wires on Thalia Drive in Agawam.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindFeeding Hills$1,000At 1240 PM EST, a tree was brought down on North Westfield Street in Agawam.
July 2017FloodFeeding Hills-At 5 PM EST, Mill Street in Agawam had a two foot depth of water between Henry Street and Poplar Street.

Every storm recorded in Hampden 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
Johnson Corner0.8 miles48
West Agawam1.7 miles48
Shea Corner2.2 miles48
Hosmer Corner2.4 miles48
O'Briens Corner2.5 miles48
Tatham2.5 miles48
Suffield Corner2.5 miles48
Hubbard Corner2.8 miles48

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608861. 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.