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Hallockville, Massachusetts

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Hawley town. It lies in ZIP code area 01339. It stands on Basin Brook. The Survey maps it on the Plainfield quadrangle.

Hallockville within Franklin 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 Hallockville, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Hallockville, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

34 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

4 since 2016

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Hallockville between 2016 and 2020, burning about 3 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
12 May 2016Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 378 shown

Museums hold 378 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hallockville between 1825 and 1975: 188 Plantae, 142 Fungi, 46 Animalia, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gurney, A. R. Hodgdon; H. Bigelow;R. Livingstone, A. S. Goodale, S. F. Potsubay, F. R. St. John. 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 Cardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W.WoodCardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W.Wood1900F. F. Forbes
A photograph of the species Carex pauciflora, not of this specimenCarex pauciflora Lightf.1825Collector unspecifiedAshfield. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Halenia deflexa, not of this specimenHalenia deflexa (Sm.) Griseb.1868Collector(s): Henry Griswold JesupCummington
A photograph of the species Potamogeton gramineus, not of this specimenPotamogeton gramineus L.1875H. G. JesupAshfield Pond
A photograph of the species Diervilla lonicera, not of this specimenDiervilla lonicera Mill.1881Bassett, F.L.Ashfield
A photograph of the species Phegopteris connectilis, not of this specimenPhegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt1892B. ShimekCummington.
A photograph of the species Juglans cinerea, not of this specimenJuglans cinerea L.1895C. W. TrowBuckland.
A photograph of the species Gentiana andrewsii, not of this specimenGentiana andrewsii Griseb.1901Fayette Frederick ForbesMassachusetts, Buckland, wet soil
A photograph of the species Gentianopsis crinita, not of this specimenGentianopsis crinita (Froel.) Ma1901Fayette Frederick ForbesMassachusetts, Buckland in moist soil
A photograph of the species Carex communis, not of this specimenCarex communis var. communis1902F. F. ForbesBuckland. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Cryptomycina pteridis, not of this specimenCryptomycina pteridis (Rebent.) Höhn.1927S. Bache-Wiig
A photograph of the species Dasyscyphus calycinus, not of this specimenDasyscyphus calycinus (Schumach.) Fuckel1927Hansbrough J. R.; Skellenger L. E.Charlemont

All 378 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 15 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Hallockville: 6 occurrences, 4 past producers, 4 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Copper, Sulfur-Pyrite, Copper, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Betts Manganese MinesManganese, Iron, GemstoneProducer1830, 1925
Betts Mn Mines TaconicManganese, IronPast Producer
Packard Manganese OccurrenceMica, FeldsparOccurrenceFeldspar, Mica
Hawley MineIronPast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Talc ProspectTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceMetamorphic
Talc ProspectTalc-SoapstoneProspect
Copper ProspectCopper, Sulfur-PyriteOccurrenceMetamorphic
Copper ProspectCopper, Sulfur-PyriteOccurrence
Copper ProspectCopper, Sulfur-PyriteOccurrenceMetamorphic
Copper ProspectCopper, SulfurProspect

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
King Corner1.0 miles34
West Hawley1.7 miles34
South Hawley2.0 miles34
Hawley3.5 miles34
Watson4.7 miles32
Spruce Corner6.1 miles32
Dodge Corner6.2 miles32
Charlemont6.4 miles32

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 Q122567097The 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 617416. 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.