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

Glendale, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Stockbridge town. It lies in ZIP code area 01229. It stands on Mohawk Brook. The Survey maps it on the Stockbridge quadrangle.

Glendale within Berkshire County

Then and now

1888 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Glendale, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Glendale, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

42 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Butler Bridge, Spans Housatonic River on Butler Road (North Glendale Road), Stockbridge, Berkshire County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

19 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Glendale between 2014 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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	11
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Natural	1
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
13 September 2016	Other causes	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
31 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 August 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
18 July 2019	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 June 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	HARVEY MOUNTAIN FIRE
13 May 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
29 April 2015	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 Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,978 shown

Museums hold 1,978 specimens collected within 10 miles of Glendale between 1833 and 1975: 886 Plantae, 842 Animalia, 243 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Evans, A. Brown, A. E. Treat 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
Potamogeton pusillus subsp. tenuissimus (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) K.Richt.	1900	P. B. Weatherbee
Betula alleghaniensis Britton	1833	Collector unknown
Betula pumila L.	1833	Collector unspecified
Carex utriculata Boott	1833	W. L. Worcester
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1833	Collector unknown
Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman	1833	Collector unknown
Parnassia caroliniana Michx.	1834	not recorded
Percopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)	1860	Britton McCabe	Green R. (trib. of Housatonic R.), 1 mi. S of Great Barrington on Rt. 23
Platanthera peramoena A.Gray	1863	J. T. Stewart	Glendale
Spiranthes magnicamporum Sheviak	1863	J. T. Stewart	Glendale
Bartramia pomiformis Hedw.	1895	not recorded
Acer saccharum Marshall	1897	Vail, A.M.	Tyringham

All 1,978 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 35 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Glendale: 22 past producers, 11 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Cone Limestone Mine	Iron, Magnesite, Zinc	Past Producer	1827
John S Lane and Son Inc	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Lee Marble Inc Qy & Plant	Marble, Dimension	Producer
Lee Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lee White Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer	Metamorphic
No 6 Quarry & Plnt Lane & Son	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Toby Lime Plant	Limestone, General	Producer
Beacco Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Donovan Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gaston Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

6 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Glendale in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Glendale	-	A tree and wires were downed on Butler Road in Stockbridge.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Glendale	-	A tree was downed along Glendale Road in West Stockbridge. This damage occurred due to an outflow boundary ahead of a line of thunderstorms.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Glendale	-	A tree was reported down in the hamlet of Glendale in Stockbridge due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Glendale	-	A tree was reported down on Route 7 in the Glendale section of the town of Stockbridge.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Glendale	-	Trees were reported down on wires in Glendale due to thunderstorm high winds.
September 2011	Flood	Glendale	-	Moderate flooding occurred on the Housatonic River at Great Barrington. The Great Barrington river gage located on left bank at upstream side of highway bridge at Van Deusenville, 0.5 miles upstream from Williams River, and 2 miles north of Great Barrington exceeded its 9 foot flood stage at 1:27 pm EST September 7th, its 10 foot moderate flood stage at 1 pm September 8th, it crested at 10.18 feet at 9:45 pm September 8th, and fell below flood stage at 10:41 pm September 9th.

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
Larrywaug	1.3 miles	42
Stockbridge	1.3 miles	42
Rockdale Mills	1.8 miles	43
Interlaken	2.3 miles	42
Williamsville	2.3 miles	43
Housatonic	2.3 miles	42
Risingdale	2.5 miles	40
Beachwood	3.1 miles	42

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.

Wikipedia article on Glendale	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q60747370	The 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 607433. 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.