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

Fentonville, Massachusetts

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Brimfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 01010. It stands on Foskett Mill Stream. The Survey maps it on the Palmer quadrangle.

Fentonville within Hampden County

Then and now

1887 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fentonville, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Fentonville, surveyed 1887

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.

Fires nearby

50 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Fentonville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 6 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
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	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
9 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
15 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
27 June 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 854 shown

Museums hold 854 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fentonville between 1857 and 1975: 508 Fungi, 194 Plantae, 133 Animalia, 14 Chromista, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. E. Kirk, A. Lavallee 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Polygonum pensylvanicum L.	1897	Morris,E.L. s.n. [1897-08]	[label: Flora of North America - Herbarium of E.L. Morris] Monson. Massachussets. Rubbish heaps
Krigia virginica (L.) Willd.	1857	not recorded
Carex cephalophora Muhl. ex Willd.	1858	J. Blake
Carex vestita Willd.	1858	J. Blake	Ware
Castilleja coccinea (L.) Spreng.	1858	A. P. Chute
Celastrus scandens L.	1858	s.coll.
Ranunculus flabellaris Raf.	1858	A. P. Chute
Trifolium agrarium L.	1858	not recorded
Zizia aurea (L.) W.D.J.Koch	1859	A. P. Chute
Catharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921)	1870	Collector(s): Joseph H. Batty	South Wilbraham
Acer spicatum Lam.	1891	not recorded
Cryptosporella anomala (Peck) Sacc.	1892	Graves H.	Palmer

All 854 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Fentonville: 5 producers, 4 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
J J Raczka Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
J.J. Raczka Sand and Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Jurczyk Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lizak's Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Monson Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Monson Sand and Gravel Corp	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Palmer Bituminous Corp	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Palmer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Palmer Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Storms nearby

1 since 2020

The National Weather Service names Fentonville in 1 storm report between 2020 and 2020: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Fentonville	$200	In Brimfield, a large branch was down on Old Palmer Road.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Blanchardville	1.7 miles	35
Dingley Dell	1.7 miles	33
North Monson	2.2 miles	33
Tenneyville	2.3 miles	35
West Brimfield	2.5 miles	35
Palmer	3.2 miles	35
Monson	3.5 miles	33
Palmer Center	3.6 miles	35

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609544. 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.