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Hartsville, Massachusetts

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1997. It stands in New Marlborough town. It lies in ZIP code area 01230. The Survey maps it on the Great Barrington quadrangle.

Hartsville within Berkshire County

Then and now

1885 to 1997

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 Hartsville, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Hartsville, surveyed 1885

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

17 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Hartsville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. 1 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1

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
4 May 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 April 2019Natural1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 April 2015Debris and open burning1.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 April 2015Debris and open burning1.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 April 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,338 shown

Museums hold 2,338 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hartsville between 1833 and 1975: 1,361 Plantae, 729 Animalia, 243 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Brown, A. E. Treat, A. L. Ericson 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
A photograph of the species Betula alleghaniensis, not of this specimenBetula alleghaniensis Britton1833Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Betula pumila, not of this specimenBetula pumila L.1833Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Dennstaedtia punctilobula, not of this specimenDennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore1833Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Gymnocarpium dryopteris, not of this specimenGymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman1833Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Parnassia caroliniana, not of this specimenParnassia caroliniana Michx.1834not recorded
A photograph of the species Percopsis omiscomaycus, not of this specimenPercopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)1860Britton McCabeGreen R. (trib. of Housatonic R.), 1 mi. S of Great Barrington on Rt. 23
A photograph of the species Platanthera peramoena, not of this specimenPlatanthera peramoena A.Gray1863J. T. StewartGlendale
A photograph of the species Spiranthes magnicamporum, not of this specimenSpiranthes magnicamporum Sheviak1863J. T. StewartGlendale
A photograph of the species Gentianella quinquefolia, not of this specimenGentianella quinquefolia subsp. quinquefolia1875not recorded
A photograph of the species Acer saccharum, not of this specimenAcer saccharum Marshall1897Vail, A.M.Tyringham
A photograph of the species Acer spicatum, not of this specimenAcer spicatum Lam.1897Vail, A.M.Vicinity of Tyringham
A photograph of the species Acorus calamus, not of this specimenAcorus calamus L.1897Vail, A.M.vicnity of Tyringham

All 2,338 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hartsville: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Gold, 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
Cleveland MineIron, Gold, SulfurPast Producer
Eastern GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mill River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

1 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Hartsville in 1 storm report between 2008 and 2008: 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2008HailHartsville-Nickel size hail was reported approximately 5 miles east northeast of Great Barrington.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Monterey2.8 miles38
New Marlborough3.0 miles38
Mill River3.2 miles43
Hephzibah Heights3.7 miles38
Camp Jayson3.8 miles38
Southfield4.2 miles38
Brookside5.3 miles40
Belcher Square5.4 miles40

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607460. 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.