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Hoosac Tunnel Station, Massachusetts

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Rowe town. It lies in ZIP code area 01367. It stands on Beaver Island. The Survey maps it on the Rowe quadrangle.

Hoosac Tunnel Station 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 Hoosac Tunnel Station, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Hoosac Tunnel Station, 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

10 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Hoosac Tunnel Station between 2006 and 2020, burning about 18 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 burning6
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
18 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
18 April 2006Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 April 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 March 2016Debris and open burning8.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 March 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresMassachusetts 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 246 shown

Museums hold 246 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hoosac Tunnel Station between 1878 and 1975: 119 Fungi, 94 Plantae, 24 Animalia, 7 Protozoa, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Ahles, H.E., Britton McCabe, C Clair Jr. 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 Cyperus fuscus, not of this specimenCyperus fuscus L.1878C. E. Faxon
A photograph of the species Galeopsis ladanum, not of this specimenGaleopsis ladanum L.1878not recorded
A photograph of the species Symphyotrichum lanceolatum, not of this specimenSymphyotrichum lanceolatum (Willd.) G.L.Nesom1878T. Morong
A photograph of the species Calamagrostis canadensis, not of this specimenCalamagrostis canadensis (Michx.) P.Beauv.1904F. F. ForbesBrookline; Hawley Harvey's Bog.
A photograph of the species Cypripedium acaule, not of this specimenCypripedium acaule Aiton1904Forbes,F.F.USA, Massachusetts, Hawley, [...] Bog
A photograph of the species Gentiana linearis, not of this specimenGentiana linearis Froel.1904F. F. ForbesHawley.
A photograph of the species Kalmia latifolia, not of this specimenKalmia latifolia L.1904not recorded
A photograph of the species Trichophorum alpinum, not of this specimenTrichophorum alpinum (L.) Pers.1904F. F. ForbesHawley; Dewey Swamp.
A photograph of the species Utricularia intermedia, not of this specimenUtricularia intermedia Hayne1904Forbes, F.F.; BrooklineHawley's Bog, in ditch.
A photograph of the species Dasyscyphus calycinus, not of this specimenDasyscyphus calycinus (Schumach.) Fuckel1927Hansbrough J. R.; Skellenger L. E.Charlemont
Morrisonia latex (Guenée, 1852)1928not recordedMonroe
Plagodis serinaria (Herrich-Schäffer)1928not recordedMonroe

All 246 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 11 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Hoosac Tunnel Station: 4 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Copper. 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
Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Copper ProspectCopperProspect
Mary LouiseCopperPast Producer
Talc ProspectTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceMetamorphic
Talc ProspectTalc-SoapstoneProspect
Talc QuarryTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceMetamorphic
Talc QuarryTalc-SoapstoneProducerMetamorphic
Talc QuarryTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Talc QuarryTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Talc QuarryTalc-SoapstoneProducerMetamorphic

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
Zoar3.1 miles34
Monroe Bridge4.4 miles34
Rowe4.9 miles34
Camp Rowe5.0 miles34
Charlemont6.8 miles32
Dell7.4 miles32
King Corner7.4 miles34
Hallockville8.3 miles34

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 Q122552238The 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 607903. 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.