Indian Orchard, Massachusetts

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.

1887 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.

• 1887 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1919 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1939 USGS Ludlow quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS Ludlow quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Ludlow quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Ludlow quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Ludlow quadrangle1:31680
• 1947 USGS Ludlow quadrangle1:25000
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Ludlow quadrangle1:31680
• 1954 USGS Ludlow quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Ludlow quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Ludlow quadrangle1:25000
• 1969 USGS Ludlow quadrangle1:24000
• 1969 USGS Ludlow quadrangle1:25000
• 1969 USGS Ludlow quadrangle1:25000
• 1975 USGS Ludlow quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 336 fires within 5 miles of Indian Orchard between 2015 and 2020, burning about 149 acres in total. 9 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:

• Ludlow
• Cadys Corners
• Ludlow City
• Scott Corners
• Wilbraham
• Butlerville

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Museums hold 2,148 specimens collected within 10 miles of Indian Orchard between 1845 and 1975: 772 Fungi, 741 Animalia, 591 Plantae, 24 Chromista, 14 Unrecorded, 5 Protozoa, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Albee, A. B. Seymour, A. E. Kirk 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
	Taphrina johansonii Sadeb.	1894	W.G. Farlow
	Lygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.	1895	Deane, Walter	East Longmeadow;;;;
	Calligrapha rhoda Knab, 1909	1900	F. Knab	West Springfield
	Galeopsis tetrahit L.	1845	not recorded
	Icterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)	1857	Collector(s): Joel Asaph Allen	Springfield
	Pipilo erythrophthalmus erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1857	Collector(s): Joel Asaph Allen	Springfield
	Setophaga aestiva aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1857	Collector(s): Joel Asaph Allen	Springfield
	Turdus migratorius migratorius Linnaeus, 1766	1857	Collector(s): Joel Asaph Allen	Springfield
	Carex platyphylla J.Carey	1858	J. Blake	Mt. Holyoke
	Geranium robertianum L.	1858	not recorded	Mt. Holyoke
	Viola pubescens Aiton	1858	not recorded	Mt. Holyoke
	Rhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)	1859	Wheatland, R.H.	Chicopee River, at Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts; Locality according to historical catalogue: 'Chicopa River, Massachusetts'/erroneous, is Chicopee River, at Chicopee, Massachusetts (according to MCZ online fish catalogue).

All 2,148 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Indian Orchard: 13 past producers, 11 producers, 1 plant. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Flagstone, Aluminum. 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 Indian Orchard in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 1 tornado, 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.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609291. 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.