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

Leeds, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Northampton City. It lies in ZIP code area 01053. It stands on Roberts Meadow Brook. The Survey maps it on the Easthampton quadrangle.

Leeds within Hampshire County

Then and now

1885 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Leeds, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Leeds, surveyed 1885

Topographic sheets covering this place

42 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.

In the 1898 county history

3,281 words on this township

The county history of 1898 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Northampton City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Northampton City - 3,281 words.

Fires nearby

60 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Leeds between 2015 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	5
Arson/incendiarism	4

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
2 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
15 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
30 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
27 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 6,277 shown

Museums hold 6,277 specimens collected within 10 miles of Leeds between 1781 and 1975: 3,096 Plantae, 1,752 Fungi, 1,206 Animalia, 134 Chromista, 78 Protozoa, 10 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A V Osmun, A., A. Albee 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Cercospora violae Sacc.	1895	Ralph E. Smith	Hothouse, Mass. Agr. College, Amherst
Actias luna Linnaeus, 1758	1896	not recorded
Plathemis lydia (Drury, 1773)	1896	not recorded
Carex argyrantha Tuck. ex Dewey	1781	H. G. Jesup	Amherst in Hampshire Co., and Leverett in Franklin Co., Massachusetts. [Inferred counties from precise loc.]
Carex foenea Willd.	1781	H. G. Jesup	And Leverett
Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle	1810	J.E. Humphrey
Porella platyphylloidea (Schwein.) Lindb.	1822	Emmons	Norwich
Carex bromoides Willd.	1831	Collector unknown
Ranunculus ambigens S.Watson	1831	S. Shurtleff
Carex vesicaria L.	1836	Collector unknown
Carex vestita Willd.	1836	Collector unspecified
Kalmia angustifolia f. angustifolia	1838	L. DeWette	Northampton.

All 6,277 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 27 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Leeds: 10 producers, 10 past producers, 5 occurrences, 2 prospects. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Brick Clay, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Argentine Galena Vein	Silver, Lead	Occurrence	Galena
Argentine Galena Vein	Lead, Silver	Prospect
Hatfield Lead Mine	Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Vein
Hatfield Lead Mine	Barium-Barite, Zinc, Lead	Producer	Barite, Galena, Sphalerite
Hatfield Lead Mine	Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Loudville Lead Mine	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Barium-Barite	Producer	Barite, Galena
Loudville Mine	Barium-Barite, Lead, Silica, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Whately - Williamsburg Lead Veins	Lead, Manganese	Occurrence	Galena
Wzorek Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Bog Iron Occurrence	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

Storms nearby

3 since 2000

The National Weather Service names Leeds in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Leeds	$500	In the Leeds section of Northampton, a tree was down on Chesterfield Road.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Leeds	-	In the Florence section on Northampton, there was significant street flooding on North Main St.
June 2000	Tornado (F1)	Leeds	-	Brief touchdown in Leeds and Pine Brook Farm sections of Northampton

Every storm recorded in Hampshire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Haydenville	1.6 miles	42
North Farms	1.8 miles	42
Florence	1.8 miles	42
Williamsburg Station	2.7 miles	42
Bay State	2.8 miles	42
West Farms	3.0 miles	42
Laurel Park	3.1 miles	42
Williamsburg	3.3 miles	42

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608759. 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.