Leisure Lee, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 111 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 1997

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.

• 1886 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Becket quadrangle1:62500
• 1899 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1945 USGS East Lee quadrangle1:31680
• 1945 USGS East Lee quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS East Lee quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS East Lee quadrangle1:31680
• 1950 USGS East Lee quadrangle1:25000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS East Lee quadrangle1:24000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS East Lee quadrangle1:24000
• 1973 USGS East Lee quadrangle1:25000
• 1973 USGS East Lee quadrangle1:25000
• 1975 USGS East Lee quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS East Lee quadrangle1:25000
• 1997 USGS East Lee quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Leisure Lee between 2003 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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.

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:

• East Lee
• Lee
• Lenox Dale
• Lenox Station
• South Lee
• Berkshire Heights

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Museums hold 2,183 specimens collected within 10 miles of Leisure Lee between 1833 and 1975: 1,089 Animalia, 799 Plantae, 287 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Evans, A. E. Treat, A. K. Harrison 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
	Potamogeton pusillus subsp. tenuissimus (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) K.Richt.	1900	P. B. Weatherbee
	Betula alleghaniensis Britton	1833	Collector unknown
	Betula pumila L.	1833	Collector unspecified
	Carex utriculata Boott	1833	W. L. Worcester
	Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1833	Collector unknown
	Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman	1833	Collector unknown
	Parnassia caroliniana Michx.	1834	not recorded
	Platanthera peramoena A.Gray	1863	J. T. Stewart	Glendale
	Spiranthes magnicamporum Sheviak	1863	J. T. Stewart	Glendale
	Homalia trichomanoides (Hedw.) Schimp.	1867	E. C. Howe
	Acer saccharum Marshall	1897	Vail, A.M.	Tyringham
	Acer spicatum Lam.	1897	Vail, A.M.	Vicinity of Tyringham

All 2,183 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Leisure Lee: 4 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Marble, Dimension, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Berkshire County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1978808. 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.