Holyoke, Massachusetts

Holyoke grew from 3,245 to 38,238 between 1850 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.

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 1985

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.

• 1886 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1896 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1897 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1920 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1933 USGS Chicopee quadrangle1:24000
• 1938 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:31680
• 1938 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:31680
• 1938 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:31680
• 1938 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1946 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:24000
• 1946 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:24000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:25000
• 1972 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:25000
• 1972 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000

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.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 326 fires within 5 miles of Holyoke between 2014 and 2020, burning about 189 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 2 were 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Elmwood
• Fairview
• Highland Park
• Highlands
• Oakdale
• Plainville (historical)

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Museums hold 2,244 specimens collected within 10 miles of Holyoke between 1831 and 1975: 1,121 Plantae, 709 Animalia, 380 Fungi, 19 Chromista, 9 Unrecorded, 5 Protozoa, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Albee, A. B. Seymour, A. C. Gibson 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
	Lycopodiella inundata (L.) Holub	1892	Chapman	Southhampton
	Taphrina johansonii Sadeb.	1894	W.G. Farlow
	Camissonia Link	1898	B. L. Robinson
	Carex bromoides Willd.	1831	Collector unknown
	Carex vesicaria L.	1836	Collector unknown
	Carex vestita Willd.	1836	Collector unspecified
	Kalmia angustifolia f. angustifolia	1838	L. DeWette	Northampton.
	Kalmia latifolia var. latifolia	1838	L. DeWette	Northampton.
	Pogonia ophioglossoides (L.) Ker Gawl.	1838	L. DeWette	Northampton.
	Carex siccata Dewey	1844	Collector unknown
	Amphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fernald	1845	Collector unspecified
	Galeopsis tetrahit L.	1845	not recorded

All 2,244 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Holyoke: 13 producers, 11 past producers, 1 occurrence. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Brick Clay, Clay, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Hampden County

The National Weather Service names Holyoke in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 3 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.

Every storm recorded in Hampden County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 617679. 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.