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

Granville, Massachusetts

42 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 Seymour Brook. The Survey maps it on the Southwick quadrangle.

Granville 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, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Granville, surveyed 1887

Compare 1887 against another survey:

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.

Fires nearby

27 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Granville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 2 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 use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
8 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
7 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
25 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 July 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,151 shown

Museums hold 2,151 specimens collected within 10 miles of Granville between 1831 and 1975: 1,248 Fungi, 712 Plantae, 121 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Fungi	1890	Seymour, Arthur Bliss	Granville
Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.	1890	Arthur B. Seymour	Granville
Sphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.	1893	Daniel C. Eaton
Panax quinquefolius L.	1831	Collector unspecified	Blandford
Carex siccata Dewey	1844	Collector unknown
Amphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fernald	1845	Collector unspecified
Alopecurus geniculatus L.	1850	not recorded
Lactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt.	1850	Collector unspecified
Carex canescens L.	1852	Collector unknown	Westfield.
Carex pallescens L.	1852	Collector unknown	Westfield
Eurybia schreberi (Nees) Nees	1852	C. A. Shurtleff
Chelone glabra L.	1891	not recorded

All 2,151 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Granville: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Talc-Soapstone, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Westfield Deposit	Kyanite	Occurrence
Serpentine Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Metamorphic
Serpentine Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Soapstone Quarry	Talc-Soapstone	Producer	Metamorphic
Soapstone Quarry	Talc-Soapstone	Past Producer
Granville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Great Brook Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Southwick Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Storms nearby

19 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Granville in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flash 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
August 2003	Flash Flood	Granville	$50,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Granville	$23,000	Multiple trees and power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds in Granville, Westfield, and Southwick.
December 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Granville	$8,000	Trees were downed on Pawling Silver Road in Granville, forcing temporary closure of the roadway.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Granville	$5,000	A tree was downed onto wires on Hartland Hollow Road by thunderstorm winds.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Granville	$5,000	Trees and wires on South Lane were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Granville	$5,000	Large trees on North Lane were downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Granville	$5,000	no account filed
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	West Granville	$3,000	At 2:25 PM EST, wind brought three trees down blocking North Lane in Granville.
December 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Granville	$3,000	Trees were reported down on a side road.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Granville	$1,000	In Granville, there was a tree and wires down on Granby Rd.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	West Granville	$800	In Granville, a tree was down on wires on North Lane.
August 2024	Hail	West Granville	-	In West Granville, 2 inch hail fell.
May 2017	Hail	Granville	-	At 622 PM EST, dime size hail was reported in Granville.
May 2010	Hail	Granville	-	Pea to nickel size hail fell on Old Westfield Road.
September 2008	Hail	West Granville	-	Penny to quarter size hail fell in a swath west of Granville.
July 2002	Hail	Granville	-	no account filed
June 2000	Flash Flood	Granville	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Granville	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Granville	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Granville Center	0.9 miles	39
Vining Hill	3.9 miles	42
West Granville	4.4 miles	39
Mundale	4.5 miles	42
Southwick	4.9 miles	42
Gillett Corner	4.9 miles	42
South Quarter	5.2 miles	37
Baird Four Corners	5.3 miles	39

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608430. 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.