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Lithia, Massachusetts

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Goshen town. It lies in ZIP code area 01032. It stands on Mount Rood. The Survey maps it on the Goshen quadrangle.

Lithia within Hampshire 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 Lithia, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Lithia, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

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

9 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Lithia between 2015 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2

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
11 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use25 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
16 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
18 April 2016Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
16 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 April 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,116 shown

Museums hold 1,116 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lithia between 1825 and 1975: 533 Plantae, 440 Fungi, 122 Animalia, 17 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A., A. Gurney, A. M. Rogers 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 Buellia disciformis (Fr.) MuddBuellia disciformis (Fr.) Mudd1900George P. ClintonHammond Pond
Specimen of Graphis scripta (L.) Ach.Graphis scripta (L.) Ach.1900George P. ClintonHammond Pond
A photograph of the species Carex pauciflora, not of this specimenCarex pauciflora Lightf.1825Collector unspecifiedAshfield. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Veratrum viride, not of this specimenVeratrum viride subsp. viride1847not recordedBrunswick and Goshen
A photograph of the species Halenia deflexa, not of this specimenHalenia deflexa (Sm.) Griseb.1868Collector(s): Henry Griswold JesupCummington
A photograph of the species Botrychium matricariifolium, not of this specimenBotrychium matricariifolium (Döll) A.Braun ex Koch1873H. G. Jesup
Botrychium virginianum subsp. typicum R.T.Clausen1873Jesup, H.G.Goshen.
A photograph of the species Phegopteris connectilis, not of this specimenPhegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt1873H. G. Jesup
A photograph of the species Phegopteris hexagonoptera, not of this specimenPhegopteris hexagonoptera (Michx.) Fée1873H. G. Jesup
A photograph of the species Botrychium lanceolatum, not of this specimenBotrychium lanceolatum (S.G.Gmel.) Ångstr.1874H. G. Jesup
A photograph of the species Diphasiastrum tristachyum, not of this specimenDiphasiastrum tristachyum (Pursh) Holub1874Jesup, H.G.Conway
Gratiola neglecta Torr.1874H. G. Jesup

All 1,116 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 21 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Lithia: 8 past producers, 6 producers, 6 occurrences, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Lithium, Stone, Quartz, 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
Flagstone QuarryStone, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
Flagstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Goshen-Lithia AreaTin, LithiumOccurrence1823
Whetstone QuarryQuartzProducerQuartz
Whetstone QuarryStonePast Producer
Whetstone QuarryStoneProducerMetamorphic
Whetstone QuarryStonePast Producer
Barrus Property Lithia MineLithiumOccurrence
Barrus Property Lithia MineLithiumOccurrence
Clark Ledge Lithia MineLithiumProducerFeldspar

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

Storms nearby

2 since 2014

The National Weather Service names Lithia in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 2 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
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLithia$5,000Trees were downed on West Road in Goshen, on Goshen and Petticoat Roads in Williamsburg, and on Florence Road in Northampton.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLithia$500In Cummington, trees were downed on Shaw Rd.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Swift River1.4 miles38
Goshen2.2 miles38
Camp Howe2.3 miles38
Cummington3.1 miles35
West Chesterfield4.3 miles35
Chesterfield4.5 miles38
Bryant Four Corners5.2 miles35
Bisbee Mill5.7 miles37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608608. 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.