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

Greylock Estates, Massachusetts

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Lanesborough town. It lies in ZIP code area 01237. It stands on Savage Hill. The Survey maps it on the Cheshire quadrangle.

Greylock Estates within Berkshire County

Then and now

1886 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Greylock Estates, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet of Greylock Estates, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

40 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 2008

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Greylock Estates between 2008 and 2020, burning about 152 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	18
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2

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 June 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 June 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 June 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
6 May 2015	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 May 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 May 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
30 April 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 April 2018	Recreation and ceremony	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 1,009 shown

Museums hold 1,009 specimens collected within 10 miles of Greylock Estates between 1828 and 1975: 533 Plantae, 318 Animalia, 155 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A K Harrison, A Schwartz, A. H. Gustafson 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
Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Richardson, 1823	1898	J. R. Churchill
Bombus ternarius Say, 1837	1898	[Not Stated]	Hinsdale
Carex pensylvanica Lam.	1898	J. R. Churchill
Fraxinus americana L.	1828	J. Torrey
Jamesoniella autumnalis (DC.) Steph.	1828	Ebenezer Emmons
Persicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre	1835	C. A. Shurtleff	Pittsfield
Scorzoneroides autumnalis (L.) Moench	1850	not recorded
Spiraea tomentosa L.	1850	not recorded
Vicia cracca subsp. cracca	1852	C. A. Walters
Coptis trifolia (L.) Salisb.	1855	Smer	Williamstown Map - Mt. Greylock
Solidago patula Muhl. ex Willd.	1858	Brewer; Chickering
Carex aestivalis M.A.Curtis ex A.Gray	1865	not recorded

All 1,009 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 17 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Greylock Estates: 10 past producers, 5 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
United States Gypsum Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
United States Gypsum Company Marble Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Stratabound
Bliss Mine	Iron	Producer	1782
Bliss Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Bliss Mine/Jagger Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Residual
Colby Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Residual
Colby Mine	Iron	Producer	1856
Colby Mine	Iron	Occurrence
Jagger Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Berkshire Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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
Camp Mohawk	1.6 miles	40
Lanesborough	1.7 miles	40
Farnams	2.2 miles	40
Berkshire	2.8 miles	40
Pontoosuc Gardens	3.3 miles	37
Lakeview Terrace	3.5 miles	37
Cheshire	3.7 miles	40
Camp Merrill	3.8 miles	37

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 Q122539866

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 1978760. 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.