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Hosmer Corner, Massachusetts

48 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Southwick town. It lies in ZIP code area 01077. It stands on Slab Brook. The Survey maps it on the West Springfield quadrangle.

Hosmer Corner within Hampden County

Then and now

1886 to 1985

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.

Topographic sheet of Hosmer Corner, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Hosmer Corner, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

48 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

147 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Hosmer Corner between 2015 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined73
Equipment and vehicle use46
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony9
Debris and open burning5
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2018Natural2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
14 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,346 shown

Museums hold 2,346 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hosmer Corner between 1844 and 1975: 1,228 Fungi, 590 Plantae, 452 Animalia, 54 Chromista, 22 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & Clara E. Cummings, A. B. Seymour; (a) A. B. Seymour, (b) Martin 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
Specimen of FungiFungi1890Seymour, Arthur BlissGranville
Specimen of Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1890Arthur B. SeymourGranville
Specimen of Sphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.Sphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.1893Daniel C. Eaton
A photograph of the species Carex siccata, not of this specimenCarex siccata Dewey1844Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Amphicarpaea bracteata, not of this specimenAmphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fernald1845Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Alopecurus geniculatus, not of this specimenAlopecurus geniculatus L.1850not recorded
A photograph of the species Lactuca hirsuta, not of this specimenLactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt.1850Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Carex canescens, not of this specimenCarex canescens L.1852Collector unknownWestfield.
A photograph of the species Carex pallescens, not of this specimenCarex pallescens L.1852Collector unknownWestfield
A photograph of the species Eurybia schreberi, not of this specimenEurybia schreberi (Nees) Nees1852C. A. Shurtleff
A photograph of the species Lonicera dioica, not of this specimenLonicera dioica L.1852Collector unknown
Alnus incana (L.) Moench1891unknownWoods Hall.

All 2,346 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 29 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Hosmer Corner: 17 past producers, 8 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone. 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
Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Baxter Sand and Gravel IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Great Brook PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
John PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
John S Lane and Son IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Johns PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lane Construction CorpSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Pochassic Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Southwick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Storms nearby

2 since 2017

The National Weather Service names Hosmer Corner in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2021: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindHosmer Corner$500In Southwick, a one-foot diameter tree was down on Rising Corner Road at the Agawam town line.
October 2017FloodHosmer Corner-River Street underpass in West Springfield was impassable. Shaker Road in Westfield was flooded and impassable; Union Street underpass was flooded and impassable; Manhole covers on Mill Street popped open by 835 PM EST. Feeding Hills Road in Southwick near the Rail Trail was blocked due to flooding.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Johnson Corner1.6 miles48
Shea Corner2.0 miles48
Feeding Hills2.4 miles48
Little River2.5 miles48
Southwick2.5 miles42
Camp Berkshire3.0 miles42
Tatham3.6 miles48
Paucatuck (historical)3.8 miles48

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 Q122540660The 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 608880. 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.