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

Hampden, Massachusetts

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hampden town. It lies in ZIP code area 01036. It stands on Big Brook. The Survey maps it on the Hampden quadrangle.

Hampden within Hampden County

Then and now

1887 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hampden, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Hampden, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

38 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.

Photographs

8 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Outing Park, 47 Richelieu Street, Springfield, Hampden County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Captain John Potter House, Exposition Grounds (moved from North Brookfield, MA), West Springfield, Hampden County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Westover Air Reserve Base, Building No. 3153, 19 Kelly Road, Chicopee, Hampden County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Outing Park, 60 Saratoga Street, Springfield, Hampden County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Outing Park, Bounded by Adams, Richelieu, Marble, & Main Streets, Springfield, Hampden County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Boston Road (Milestone), Springfield, Hampden County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Church of the Unity, 207 State Street, Springfield, Hampden County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Outing Park, 70 Saratoga Street, Springfield, Hampden County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

86 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Hampden between 2002 and 2020, burning about 175 acres in total. 14 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	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Natural	14
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	4
Debris and open burning	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
9 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MINNECHAUG MT FIRE
16 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 July 2002	Natural	35 acres	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 July 2002	Natural	24 acres	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,380 shown

Museums hold 1,380 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hampden between 1845 and 1975: 651 Fungi, 411 Animalia, 290 Plantae, 15 Chromista, 13 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. E. Kirk, A. M. & D. P. Rogers 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
Taphrina johansonii Sadeb.	1894	W.G. Farlow
Lygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.	1895	Deane, Walter	East Longmeadow;;;;
Polygonum pensylvanicum L.	1897	Morris,E.L. s.n. [1897-08]	[label: Flora of North America - Herbarium of E.L. Morris] Monson. Massachussets. Rubbish heaps
Galeopsis tetrahit L.	1845	not recorded
Icterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)	1857	Collector(s): Joel Asaph Allen	Springfield
Pipilo erythrophthalmus erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1857	Collector(s): Joel Asaph Allen	Springfield
Setophaga aestiva aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1857	Collector(s): Joel Asaph Allen	Springfield
Turdus migratorius migratorius Linnaeus, 1766	1857	Collector(s): Joel Asaph Allen	Springfield
Catharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921)	1870	Collector(s): Joseph H. Batty	South Wilbraham
Diadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1870	not recorded	Springfield
Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825	1871	not recorded	Springfield
Atrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.	1877	not recorded	Springfield

All 1,380 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Hampden: 6 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Flagstone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Wilson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wilson-Siano Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Sandstone
Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Sandstone
Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Sandstone
Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Sandstone
Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Storms nearby

11 since 2006

The National Weather Service names Hampden in 11 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning. 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
February 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hampden	$20,000	In Hampden, a large tree branch and wires were downed on Somers Road, between Isaac Bradway Road and Martin Farms Road. Trees were downed near Upper Palmer Road and State Avenue, Peck Brothers Road, and Cedar Swamp Road in Monson.
August 2014	Lightning	Hampden	$15,000	Lightning struck a house on Burleigh Road in Wilbraham, setting it on fire. Firefighters were able to put the fire out quickly, with damage sustained only to the attic.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hampden	$10,000	no account filed
February 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hampden	$6,000	A tree on Somers Road in Hampden was downed by thunderstorm winds. A large limb on Mill Street was downed.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hampden	$5,000	Wires on Main Street were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hampden	$4,000	In Hampden, trees were down on dozens of roads throughout town.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hampden	$4,000	Four large trees on Meadowbrook Lane were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2011	Hail	Hampden	-	Widespread quarter size hail with golfball size hail mixed in.
August 2014	Hail	Hampden	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Hampden	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Hampden	-	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
Baptist Village	3.2 miles	38
Mileoak Corner	3.3 miles	38
Wilbraham	4.2 miles	38
Colton Hollow	4.5 miles	33
South Factory Village	4.6 miles	33
East Longmeadow	5.3 miles	50
State Line	5.3 miles	33
Monson	5.7 miles	33

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609283. 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.