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Foundry Village, 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 Foundry Brook. The Survey maps it on the Colrain quadrangle.

Foundry Village 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 Foundry Village, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Foundry Village, 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

29 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Foundry Village between 2002 and 2020, burning about 21 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 burning22
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
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
29 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 April 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
19 April 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder 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 479 shown

Museums hold 479 specimens collected within 10 miles of Foundry Village between 1847 and 1975: 260 Plantae, 126 Fungi, 86 Animalia, 7 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. S. Pease, A. T. Beals, A. W. Cheever 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 Equisetum variegatum, not of this specimenEquisetum variegatum Schleich. ex F.Weber & D.Mohr1874H. G. JesupSands of Deerfield River, Conway, Mass.
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.

All 479 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Foundry Village: 5 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Sulfur, Iron, Sulfur, Iron. 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
Gossan - Not ProspectedIron, SulfurOccurrence
Gossan In East Oxbow BrookIron, SulfurOccurrence
Gossan In East Oxbow Brook ProspectIron, SulfurOccurrence
Gossan OccurrenceIron, SulfurOccurrence
West Leyden Copper ProspectSulfurProspect
Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Luther Smith Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
Luther Smith Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer

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
Lyonsville0.2 miles36
Colrain1.1 miles36
Griswoldville1.2 miles36
Adamsville1.7 miles36
Fort Morrison2.0 miles36
Fort Lucas2.4 miles36
Fort Morris2.5 miles36
Shattuckville2.5 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 Q122572493The 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 608176. 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.