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

Little Rest, Massachusetts

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Brimfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 01010. It stands on Sessions Brook. The Survey maps it on the Warren quadrangle.

Little Rest within Hampden County

Then and now

1887 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Little Rest, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Little Rest, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

34 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

27 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Little Rest between 2015 and 2020, burning about 13 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
17 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 August 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
19 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
27 June 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
30 May 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
7 April 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 546 shown

Museums hold 546 specimens collected within 10 miles of Little Rest between 1858 and 1975: 410 Fungi, 93 Plantae, 38 Animalia, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Lavallee, A.B. Seymour 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
Polygonum pensylvanicum L.	1897	Morris,E.L. s.n. [1897-08]	[label: Flora of North America - Herbarium of E.L. Morris] Monson. Massachussets. Rubbish heaps
Carex vestita Willd.	1858	J. Blake	Ware
Celastrus scandens L.	1858	s.coll.
Nitella megacarpa (T.F.A.) R.D.W.	1874	Piper, S. M.
Calostoma cinnabarinum Desv.	1879	S. J. Harkness	Thorndike.
Calostoma fuscum (Berk.) Massee	1879	S. J. Harkness	Thorndike.
Calostoma lutescens (Schwein.) Burnap, 1897	1879	Collector unspecified	Thorndike.
Mitremyces Nees, 1816	1879	S. J. Harkness
Cryptosporella anomala (Peck) Sacc.	1892	Graves H.	Palmer
Goodyera pubescens (Willd.) R.Br.	1892	E. L. Morris	Monson
Potamogeton natans L.	1892	E. L. Morris	Monson
Sphagnum subsecundum Nees	1893	not recorded	Monson

All 546 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Little Rest: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Dug Hill Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
E W Sykes Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hi-Way Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Brimfield	1.4 miles	36
East Brimfield	2.9 miles	36
Dingley Dell	4.0 miles	33
Fentonville	4.6 miles	35
West Brimfield	4.6 miles	35
Wales	5.3 miles	36
Holland	5.5 miles	36
Blanchardville	6.2 miles	35

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609820. 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.