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

Florida, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Florida town. It lies in ZIP code area 01343. It stands on Flat Rock Hill. The Survey maps it on the North Adams quadrangle.

Florida 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 Florida, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Florida, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

39 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

13 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Florida between 2006 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	6
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
5 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 May 2015	Smoking	5.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
25 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
6 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
28 April 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 April 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
18 April 2006	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 April 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 554 shown

Museums hold 554 specimens collected within 10 miles of Florida between 1828 and 1975: 254 Plantae, 148 Animalia, 142 Fungi, 6 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A K Harrison, A Schwartz, A. K. Harrison 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
Lycopodium annotinum var. pungens (Desv.) La Pylaie ex Desv.	1898	Kofoid, C.A.	North Adams.
Dryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray	1828	Collector unspecified
Coptis trifolia (L.) Salisb.	1855	Smer	Williamstown Map - Mt. Greylock
Carex aestivalis M.A.Curtis ex A.Gray	1865	Boott, M.	Saddle Mountain, Williamstown [Mount Greylock]
Carex novae-angliae Schwein.	1865	W. Boott	Saddle Ball Mountain
Gloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.) Murrill	1888	L. M. Underwood	Williamstown.
Populus deltoides W.Bartram ex Marshall	1890	A. K. Harrison	S Williamstown; banks of Green River.
Clematis virginiana L.	1891	Lloyd, F.E.	Williamstown
Parnassia glauca Raf.	1891	T. O. Fuller	Mount Greylock.
Amelanchier arborea var. laevis (Wiegand) H.E.Ahles	1892	Lloyd, F.E.	Williamstown
Puccinia grossulariae Lagerh.	1898	Churchill	Adams
Thymus serpyllum L.	1898	J. R. Churchill

All 554 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Florida: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
North Adams Lime Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Stratabound
North Adams Lime Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Talc Prospect	Talc-Soapstone	Occurrence	Metamorphic
Talc Prospect	Talc-Soapstone	Prospect
Talc Quarry	Talc-Soapstone	Occurrence	Metamorphic
Talc Quarry	Talc-Soapstone	Producer	Metamorphic
Talc Quarry	Talc-Soapstone	Past Producer
Talc Quarry	Talc-Soapstone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

5 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Florida in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 1997	Tornado (F1)	Florida	$15,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Florida	$8,000	no account filed
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Florida	-	Multiple trees were downed.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Florida	-	A tree was reported down in Florida due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Florida	-	Multiple trees and wires down on Route 2.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Eastern Summit	0.4 miles	39
Hoosac Tunnel	1.0 miles	34
Drury	1.2 miles	34
Whitcomb Summit	1.6 miles	39
West Summit	3.6 miles	39
Savoy Center	4.4 miles	38
Briggsville	5.0 miles	39
Zylonite	5.2 miles	39

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607551. 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.