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

Fort Morrison, Massachusetts

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Colrain town. It lies in ZIP code area 01340. It stands on Avery Hill. The Survey maps it on the Colrain quadrangle.

Fort Morrison within Franklin County

Then and now

1890 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fort Morrison, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Fort Morrison, surveyed 1890

Topographic sheets covering this place

36 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

16 since 2017

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Fort Morrison between 2017 and 2020, burning about 10 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 burning12
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Other causes1

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
11 June 2018Other causes3.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 April 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
16 April 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
14 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 413 shown

Museums hold 413 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fort Morrison between 1847 and 1975: 224 Plantae, 102 Fungi, 80 Animalia, 7 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. J. Grout, A. S. Pease, A. T. Beals 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 Cardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W.WoodCardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W.Wood1900F. F. Forbes
A photograph of the species Cinna latifolia, not of this specimenCinna latifolia (Trevir. ex Göpp.) Griseb.1847Russell
Botrychium virginianum subsp. typicum R.T.Clausen1872Johnston, A.F.Bald Mountain.
A photograph of the species Alnus viridis, not of this specimenAlnus viridis (Chaix) DC.1874E. F. BishopDeerfield River
A photograph of the species Streptopus lanceolatus, not of this specimenStreptopus lanceolatus (Aiton) Reveal1877Anderson
A photograph of the species Orthilia secunda, not of this specimenOrthilia secunda (L.) House1878Anderson, S.E.Shelburne
A photograph of the species Silene nivea, not of this specimenSilene nivea (Nutt.) Muhl. ex Otth1878not recorded
Cronartiaceae1888Clara E. Cummings; Arthur B. Seymour; A. C. SeymourSherburne [Shelburne?]
A photograph of the species Drymocallis arguta, not of this specimenDrymocallis arguta (Pursh) Rydb.1888J. R. ChurchillPoet's Seat
A photograph of the species Spiranthes ochroleuca, not of this specimenSpiranthes ochroleuca (Rydb.) Rydb.1894Swinerton, J.R.Greenfield
A photograph of the species Juglans cinerea, not of this specimenJuglans cinerea L.1895C. W. TrowBuckland.
A photograph of the species Potamogeton bicupulatus, not of this specimenPotamogeton bicupulatus Fernald1895A. J. GroutLily Pond

All 413 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fort Morrison: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfides, Sulfur. 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
West Leyden Copper ProspectSulfidesOccurrenceReplacement
West Leyden Copper ProspectSulfurProspect

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Elm Grove0.9 miles36
Stewartville1.6 miles36
Colrain1.7 miles36
West Leyden1.7 miles36
Lyonsville2.0 miles36
Foundry Village2.0 miles36
Fort Lucas2.2 miles36
Adamsville3.0 miles36

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 Q122594595The 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 607079. 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.