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

Holland, Massachusetts

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Holland town. It lies in ZIP code area 01521. It stands on Stevens Brook. The Survey maps it on the Wales quadrangle. 1,551 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 696 feet above sea level.

Holland within Hampden County

Population over time

3 figures

Holland grew from 1,444 to 1,551 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2000	1,444
2010	1,464	+20 (+1%)
2020	1,551	+87 (+6%)

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 Holland, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Holland, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

36 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

24 since 2011

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Holland between 2011 and 2020, burning about 21 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
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1

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
17 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 August 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
30 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Connecticut Division of Forestry	not named
19 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.2 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
30 May 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 283 shown

Museums hold 283 specimens collected within 10 miles of Holland between 1874 and 1968: 193 Fungi, 60 Plantae, 25 Animalia, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A.B. Seymour, AB Seymour 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
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
Nitella megacarpa (T.F.A.) R.D.W.	1874	Piper, S. M.
Cronartium comptoniae Arthur	1882	Seymour A. B.	Monson
unnamed	1883	Arthur B. Seymour	Monson
Chrysomyxa albida J.G.Kühn	1883	Seymour, Arthur Bliss	Monson, Mass. [Massachusetts]
Cladonia rangiferina (L.) Weber	1883	A. B. Seymour	Monson
Cronartium asclepiadeum (Willd.) Fr.	1883	Seymour, Arthur Bliss	Monson, Mass. [Massachusetts]; 42.104261 -72.31897
Goodyera pubescens (Willd.) R.Br.	1892	E. L. Morris	Monson
Potamogeton natans L.	1892	E. L. Morris	Monson
Sphagnum subsecundum Nees	1893	not recorded	Monson
Lycaenidae	1894	not recorded
Carex debilis subsp. rudgei (L.H.Bailey) Á.Löve & D.Löve	1895	E. L. Morris	Monson

All 283 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Holland: 5 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Graphite. 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
Cozzens Prospect	Graphite	Occurrence
Gold Prospect	Gold	Occurrence	Gold
Gold Prospect	Gold	Occurrence	Gold
Dug Hill Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hi-Way Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Holland Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Holland Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rutherford Sand Bank	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Storms nearby

5 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Holland in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Holland	$50,000	Large trees throughout town were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Holland	$20,000	Multiple trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Holland	$10,000	A tree was downed by thunderstorm winds onto a house, resulting in severe damage to the house.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Holland	$3,000	In Holland, a tree was down on a house on Mashapaug Road.
March 1999	Heavy Rain	Holland	-	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
East Brimfield	3.3 miles	36
Wales	3.5 miles	36
Brimfield	4.7 miles	36
Little Rest	5.5 miles	34
Dingley Dell	6.5 miles	33
Fentonville	8.1 miles	35
South Monson	8.4 miles	33
North Monson	8.9 miles	33

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.

Wikipedia article on Holland	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q13360726	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 609813. 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.