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

Granville Center, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Granville town. It lies in ZIP code area 01034. It stands on Trumble Brook. The Survey maps it on the West Granville quadrangle.

Granville Center within Hampden County

Then and now

1887 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Granville Center, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Granville Center, surveyed 1887

Compare 1887 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

39 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

17 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Granville Center between 2015 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
13 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
19 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreConnecticut Division of ForestryGRANVILLE ROAD/ RT 189
3 April 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresConnecticut Division of ForestryFULLER ROAD HARTLAND CT
22 April 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,144 shown

Museums hold 2,144 specimens collected within 10 miles of Granville Center between 1831 and 1975: 1,246 Fungi, 711 Plantae, 117 Animalia, 54 Chromista, 16 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by "WJG", A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & A. C. Seymour 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 FungiFungi1890Seymour, Arthur BlissGranville
Specimen of Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1890Arthur B. SeymourGranville
Specimen of Sphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.Sphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.1893Daniel C. Eaton
A photograph of the species Panax quinquefolius, not of this specimenPanax quinquefolius L.1831Collector unspecifiedBlandford
A photograph of the species Carex siccata, not of this specimenCarex siccata Dewey1844Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Amphicarpaea bracteata, not of this specimenAmphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fernald1845Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Alopecurus geniculatus, not of this specimenAlopecurus geniculatus L.1850not recorded
A photograph of the species Lactuca hirsuta, not of this specimenLactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt.1850Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Carex canescens, not of this specimenCarex canescens L.1852Collector unknownWestfield.
A photograph of the species Carex pallescens, not of this specimenCarex pallescens L.1852Collector unknownWestfield
A photograph of the species Eurybia schreberi, not of this specimenEurybia schreberi (Nees) Nees1852C. A. Shurtleff
Chelone glabra L.1891not recorded

All 2,144 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Granville Center: 4 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Kyanite. 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
Westfield DepositKyaniteOccurrence
Granville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Serpentine QuarryStone, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
Serpentine QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Soapstone QuarryTalc-SoapstoneProducerMetamorphic
Soapstone QuarryTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Southwick Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hampden 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
Granville0.9 miles42
West Granville3.5 miles39
Vining Hill4.6 miles42
Baird Four Corners4.6 miles39
Mundale5.0 miles42
South Quarter5.2 miles37
Gillett Corner5.7 miles42
Southwick5.8 miles42

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608314. 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.