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

Ingleside, Massachusetts

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Holyoke City. It lies in ZIP code area 01040. It stands on Tannery Brook. The Survey maps it on the Mount Tom quadrangle.

Ingleside within Hampden 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 Ingleside, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Ingleside, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

43 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

402 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 402 fires within 5 miles of Ingleside between 2015 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. 31 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/undetermined173
Equipment and vehicle use141
Debris and open burning33
Natural31
Recreation and ceremony16
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
9 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 September 2017Naturalunder 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 1,726 shown

Museums hold 1,726 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ingleside between 1831 and 1975: 701 Animalia, 652 Plantae, 342 Fungi, 16 Chromista, 9 Unrecorded, 5 Protozoa, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Albee, A. B. Seymour, A. K. Harrison, F. G. Floyd 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 Lycopodiella inundata (L.) HolubLycopodiella inundata (L.) Holub1892ChapmanSouthhampton
Specimen of Taphrina johansonii Sadeb.Taphrina johansonii Sadeb.1894W.G. Farlow
Specimen of Calligrapha rhoda Knab, 1909Calligrapha rhoda Knab, 19091900F. KnabWest Springfield
A photograph of the species Carex bromoides, not of this specimenCarex bromoides Willd.1831Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex vesicaria, not of this specimenCarex vesicaria L.1836Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex vestita, not of this specimenCarex vestita Willd.1836Collector unspecified
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 Galeopsis tetrahit, not of this specimenGaleopsis tetrahit L.1845not recorded
A photograph of the species Meleagris gallopavo, not of this specimenMeleagris gallopavo silvestris Vieillot, 18171847William D. WhitneyMount Tom
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

All 1,726 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 28 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Ingleside: 13 producers, 13 past producers, 2 occurrences. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Brick Clay, Clay, Stone, Dimension. 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
Construction Aggregates PitGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Macia Emery MineEmeryOccurrenceEmery
Ondrick IndustriesSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
W. New England Smelting Works IncCopperProducer
Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Sandstone QuarryStone, DimensionProducerSandstone
Sandstone QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Sandstone QuarryStone, DimensionProducerSandstone
Clay PitBrick ClayProducerClay

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Storms nearby

6 since 2014

The National Weather Service names Ingleside in 6 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 3 flash flood, 3 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
April 2021Thunderstorm WindIngleside$60,000A microburst caused extensive tree damage along a path from Chicopee Street to the Westover Golf Club. At 4:10 PM EDT, the ASOS at Westover Airport (KCEF) recorded a gust of 72 mph. A tree was down on cars on Chicopee St. Trees and wires were down on Beverly St. and Deslories Ave. A tree was down on a house at Pendelton Ave and Deslories Ave., with extensive damage to the house. Trees were down on Garland Ave. and Granby Road. A tree, wires and a utility pole were down on Billings St. In the Dover Complex Condos, 15 large trees were blown down. Three units had trees through the roof, with one unit having the tree land in a bedroom, missing a person by two feet on Woodbridge Road. Numerous shingles were blown off roofs. Some roads impacted in the condo complex included Honeysuckle Drive, Applewood Drive, Meadowlark Drive, Lynwood Drive.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindIngleside$9,000In Holyoke, there was a tree and utility pole down on a house.
September 2018Flash FloodIngleside$4,000At 8:48 AM EST, the exit ramp from U.S. Route 5 to I-91 in West Springfield was closed due to flooding. A car was trapped in floodwaters on the ramp.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindIngleside$500In Chicopee, a tree was down on a home on Crescent Dr.
July 2018Flash FloodIngleside-At 2:09 PM EST, Meeting House Road in Chicopee was flooded and impassable.
August 2014Flash FloodIngleside-In Springfield, the east Columbus Avenue underpass was flooded and impassable. Broadway Street and Saint James Avenue in Chicopee also were flooded.

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
Willimansett0.7 miles44
Brightside0.9 miles43
Ashleyville1.1 miles43
Springdale1.3 miles44
Elmwood1.5 miles44
Aldenville1.8 miles44
North Chicopee1.9 miles44
Sandy Hill2.0 miles44

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608757. 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.