Griswoldville, Massachusetts
36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Colrain town. It lies in ZIP code area 01340. It stands on East Branch North River. The Survey maps it on the Colrain quadrangle.
Then and now
1890 to 1998The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
36 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1937 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:24000
- 1941 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:31680
- 1941 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Brattleboro quadrangle1:125000
- 1945 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:31680
- 1946 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:25000
- 1977 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:25000
- 1977 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:25000
- 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Bernardston quadrangle1:25000
- 1990 USGS Bernardston quadrangle1:25000
- 1998 USGS Bernardston quadrangle1:25000
Fires nearby
35 since 2002The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Griswoldville between 2002 and 2020, burning about 23 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 | 25 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 May 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 17 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 9 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 30 April 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 3 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | 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 |
| 29 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 28 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 846 shownMuseums hold 846 specimens collected within 10 miles of Griswoldville between 1825 and 1975: 413 Plantae, 227 Fungi, 117 Animalia, 82 Unrecorded, 7 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. S. Pease, A. T. Beals, A. W. Cheever 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Cardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W.Wood | 1900 | F. F. Forbes | |
![]() | Carex pauciflora Lightf. | 1825 | Collector unspecified | Ashfield. [Inferred county from precise loc.] |
![]() | Cinna latifolia (Trevir. ex Göpp.) Griseb. | 1847 | Russell | |
| Botrychium virginianum subsp. typicum R.T.Clausen | 1872 | Johnston, A.F. | Bald Mountain. | |
![]() | Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC. | 1874 | E. F. Bishop | Deerfield River |
![]() | Equisetum variegatum Schleich. ex F.Weber & D.Mohr | 1874 | H. G. Jesup | Sands of Deerfield River, Conway, Mass. |
![]() | Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt | 1875 | Jesup, H.G. | Conway, MA. |
| unnamed (fossil) | 1876 | Oscar H. Lebourveau | Lily Pond quarry, W side of Lily Pond on property of Dr. Roswell Field, N side of Connecticut River, & 1.0 mi S60E of dam at Turners Falls, & .8 mi SE of Riverside, town of Gill | |
![]() | Spiranthes ochroleuca (Rydb.) Rydb. | 1894 | Swinerton, J.R. | Greenfield |
![]() | Juglans cinerea L. | 1895 | C. W. Trow | Buckland. |
![]() | Carex plantaginea Lam. | 1896 | Sydney Harris | Woods near Factory Village [Note: Location found by Geolocate is in Franklin County] |
![]() | Cryptomycina pteridis (Rebent.) Höhn. | 1927 | S. Bache-Wiig |
All 846 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
8 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Griswoldville: 4 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Iron, Sulfur, Iron, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gossan - Not Prospected | Iron, Sulfur | Occurrence | ||
| Gossan In East Oxbow Brook | Iron, Sulfur | Occurrence | ||
| Gossan In East Oxbow Brook Prospect | Iron, Sulfur | Occurrence | ||
| Gossan Occurrence | Iron, Sulfur | Occurrence | ||
| Gneiss Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Gneiss Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Luther Smith Gneiss Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Producer | Metamorphic | |
| Luther Smith Gneiss Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyonsville | 1.1 miles | 36 | |
| Foundry Village | 1.2 miles | 36 | |
| Shattuckville | 1.5 miles | 36 | |
| Colrain | 1.5 miles | 36 | |
| Fort Morris | 1.7 miles | 36 | |
| The Patten | 2.2 miles | 34 | |
| Fort Lucas | 2.3 miles | 36 | |
| Adamsville | 2.5 miles | 36 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608182. 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.













































