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

Gill, Massachusetts

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Gill town. It lies in ZIP code area 01354. It stands on Grassy Hill. The Survey maps it on the Bernardston quadrangle.

Gill within Franklin County

Then and now

1887 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gill, surveyed 1990

Topographic sheet of Gill, surveyed 1887

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

30 since 2017

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Gill between 2017 and 2020, burning about 17 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	22
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	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
14 July 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 June 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
31 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 May 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 May 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
30 April 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
29 April 2017	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 Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,992 shown

Museums hold 1,992 specimens collected within 10 miles of Gill between 1822 and 1975: 895 Animalia, 757 Plantae, 228 Fungi, 112 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S Pease, A. Cronquist, A. J. Grout 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
Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt	1896	Leonard, F.E.	Northfield, Mass.
Ptilidium pulcherrimum (Weber) Hampe	1822	Ebenezer Emmons
Cinna latifolia (Trevir. ex Göpp.) Griseb.	1847	Russell
unnamed (fossil)	1867	Othniel C. Marsh	black sh, [property of T.M. Stoughton, 1871 Beers County map, previously owned by Dr. Roswell Field], S side of Connecticut River, Horse Race, Montague
Carex prasina Wahlenb.	1892	J. R. Churchill	Montague
Carex torta Boott	1892	J. R. Churchill	Montague
Rhexia virginica L.	1892	not recorded	Millers Falls
Spiranthes ochroleuca (Rydb.) Rydb.	1894	Swinerton, J.R.	Greenfield
Potamogeton bicupulatus Fernald	1895	A. J. Grout	Lily Pond
Carex plantaginea Lam.	1896	Sydney Harris	Woods near Factory Village [Note: Location found by Geolocate is in Franklin County]
Dryopteris intermedia (Muhl. ex Willd.) A.Gray	1896	Leonard, F.E.	Northfield
Cyperus lupulinus var. macilentus (Fernald) A.Haines	1899	J. A. Bates	Miller's Falls

All 1,992 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 15 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Gill: 7 past producers, 4 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Slate, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Bernardston Magnetite Occurence	Iron, Sulfur, Copper	Occurrence	Replacement
Bernardston Magnetite Occurrence	Iron, Copper, Sulfur	Past Producer
Turner Falls Copper Occurence North	Copper, Barium-Barite	Occurrence	Malachite
Turner Falls Copper Occurence Southwest	Barium-Barite, Copper, Iron	Occurrence
Turner Falls Copper Prospect	Barium-Barite, Copper	Prospect
Amphibolite Rock Quarry N	Stone	Past Producer
Amphibolite Rock Quarry N	Stone	Past Producer
Amphibolite Rock Quarry No. Bj5	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Amphibolite Rock Quarry No. Bj6	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
North Bernardston Slate Quarry	Slate, Dimension	Producer	Metamorphic

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms nearby

12 since 2006

The National Weather Service names Gill in 12 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 12 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
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Gill	$20,000	Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds resulting in power outages.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Gill	$15,000	Trees were downed on Ben Hale Road in Gill, Route 78 near Robbins Road in Warwick, and on North Main Street in Orange due to thunderstorm winds.
December 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Gill	$15,000	Telephone poles and wires were downed on West Gill Road in Gill.
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Gill	$10,000	Trees and wires on West Gill Road and Center Road were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Gill	$8,000	Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds. One of these trees landed on a trailer home.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Gill	$5,000	Trees and wires on River Road were downed by thunderstorm winds near Grist Mill Road.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Gill	$5,000	Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Gill	$2,300	In Gill, trees were down on wires on West Gill Road and trees were down on South Cross Road.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Gill	$800	In Gill, multiple trees were downed.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Gill	$500	In Gill, a tree was down on Main Road. Time estimated from radar.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Gill	$500	In Northfield, a tree was down on Pine Meadown Rd near the s curve.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gill	$500	In Gill, a tree and power lines were down from wind on West Gill Road.

Every storm 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cold Spring	1.7 miles	37
Gill Station	2.0 miles	36
Munns Ferry	2.0 miles	36
Mount Hermon	2.1 miles	36
Northfield Farms	2.2 miles	32
Mount Hermon Station	3.0 miles	36
Riverside	3.2 miles	32
Factory Village (historical)	3.3 miles	32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609275. 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.