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

Lenox Dale, Massachusetts

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Lenox town. It lies in ZIP code area 01242. It stands on Woods Crossing Brook. The Survey maps it on the East Lee quadrangle.

Lenox Dale within Berkshire County

Then and now

1886 to 1997

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.

Topographic sheet of Lenox Dale, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Lenox Dale, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

38 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

39 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Lenox Dale between 2003 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 3 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	14
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	3
Other causes	1
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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
21 September 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
18 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
31 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
7 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,297 shown

Museums hold 2,297 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lenox Dale between 1833 and 1975: 1,107 Animalia, 855 Plantae, 327 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Evans, A. E. Treat, A. H. Mead 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
Bombus ternarius Say, 1837	1898	[Not Stated]	Hinsdale
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
Persicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre	1835	C. A. Shurtleff	Pittsfield
Solidago patula Muhl. ex Willd.	1858	Brewer; Chickering
Platanthera peramoena A.Gray	1863	J. T. Stewart	Glendale
Acer saccharum Marshall	1897	Vail, A.M.	Tyringham

All 2,297 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 14 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Lenox Dale: 7 producers, 6 past producers, 1 unknown. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Marble, Dimension, Calcium. 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
Lee Lime Corp	Calcium	Past Producer	Calcite
Lee Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
North Adams Lime Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Stratabound
Lee Marble Inc Qy & Plant	Marble, Dimension	Producer
Lee White Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer	Metamorphic
Belden Mine	Iron	Producer	Limonite
Belden Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Residual
Belden Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Spurr Limonite Mine	Iron	Producer	Limonite
Abby Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

16 since 1993

The National Weather Service names Lenox Dale in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 hail. 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
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Lenox Dale	-	A large tree was down blocking Laurel Lake Road near the Village of Lenox Dale.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Lenox Dale	-	There was report of flowing water and debris from a nearby stream moving across Walker Street.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Lenox Dale	-	A large tree was downed with wires blocking a road.
August 2018	Flash Flood	Lenox Dale	-	Basement flooding in the Carriage House on Blantyre Road.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Lenox Dale	-	A tree was down on wires in Lenoxdale due to thunderstorm high winds.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Lenox Dale	-	A utility pole was reported to be snapped due to thunderstorm winds in Lenox.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Lenox Dale	-	A tree was reported down on power lines on Sturgis Ave in Lenox due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Lenox Dale	-	A tree was reported down on power lines on Bradley Avenue in Lenox due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Lenox Dale	-	Major damage was reported on the grounds of The Mount in Lenox, home of the Edith Wharton Restoration as a result of flash flooding from thunderstorm heavy rainfall. The landscaped gardens had been destroyed and the dirt road leading to the mansion was washed out and impassable due to the force of the flowing water.
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Lenox Dale	-	A tree was downed onto the porch of a house on East Street near Lenox Station as a result of thunderstorm winds.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lenox Dale	-	A tree was reported down in Lenox Dale due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2009	Flash Flood	Lenox Dale	-	Numerous roads were reported closed due to flash flooding from heavy rainfall including, but not limited to, portions of Route 7 in Lanesborough and Lenox, Route 2 in Williamstown and Route 20, Upper North Street and Dan Casey Memorial Boulevard in Pittsfield.
June 2008	Hail	Lenox Dale	-	Nickel to quarter size hail was reported in Leonx Dale during a thunderstorm.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Lenox Dale	-	Emergency Management, state police and Skywarn observers reported trees and wires downed in many parts of Berkshire County. Some roads were blocked in Stockbridge. About 1,500 customers were without power.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Lenox Dale	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Lenox Dale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Berkshire 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
Lenox Station	1.0 miles	38
Lee	2.2 miles	38
Eastover	2.5 miles	42
Lenox	2.5 miles	42
Wheatleigh	2.7 miles	42
East Lee	2.9 miles	38
Camp Mah-Kee-Nac	3.4 miles	42
Tanglewood	3.5 miles	42

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607514. 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.