Fomer, Massachusetts

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.

1887 1998

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.

• 1887 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1896 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1897 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1937 USGS Woronoco quadrangle1:24000
• 1942 USGS Woronoco quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS Woronoco quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1951 USGS Woronoco quadrangle1:24000
• 1951 USGS Woronoco quadrangle1:24000
• 1951 USGS Woronoco quadrangle1:31680
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Woronoco quadrangle1:25000
• 1967 USGS Woronoco quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Woronoco quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Blandford quadrangle1:25000
• 1998 USGS Blandford quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Fomer between 2004 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 2 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Loudville
• Westhampton
• Norwich
• West Farms
• Pine Grove
• Southampton

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Museums hold 1,306 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fomer between 1822 and 1975: 658 Plantae, 530 Animalia, 109 Fungi, 9 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. C. Gibson, A. K. Harrison, F. G. Floyd 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Camissonia Link	1898	B. L. Robinson
	Porella platyphylloidea (Schwein.) Lindb.	1822	Emmons	Norwich
	Carex bromoides Willd.	1831	Collector unknown
	Carex vesicaria L.	1836	Collector unknown
	Carex vestita Willd.	1836	Collector unspecified
	Kalmia angustifolia f. angustifolia	1838	L. DeWette	Northampton.
	Kalmia latifolia var. latifolia	1838	L. DeWette	Northampton.
	Pogonia ophioglossoides (L.) Ker Gawl.	1838	L. DeWette	Northampton.
	Meleagris gallopavo silvestris Vieillot, 1817	1847	William D. Whitney	Mount Tom
	Stellaria graminea L.	1849	not recorded
	Rorippa palustris subsp. palustris	1858	not recorded
	Actitis macularius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1866	William D. Whitney	Northampton

All 1,306 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Fomer: 6 producers, 5 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica, Zinc, Lead, Vanadium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608424. 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.