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

Loudville, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Westhampton town. It lies in ZIP code area 01027. It stands on Turkey Brook. The Survey maps it on the Easthampton quadrangle.

Loudville 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 Loudville, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Loudville, 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.

Fires nearby

51 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Loudville between 2004 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 6 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	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Debris and open burning	6
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	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
3 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
27 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
7 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
19 August 2016	Debris and open burning	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
29 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
27 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	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 2,336 shown

Museums hold 2,336 specimens collected within 10 miles of Loudville between 1822 and 1975: 1,575 Plantae, 547 Animalia, 198 Fungi, 11 Chromista, 4 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A., A. Albee, 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
Camissonia Link	1898	B. L. Robinson
Buellia disciformis (Fr.) Mudd	1900	George P. Clinton	Hammond Pond
Graphis scripta (L.) Ach.	1900	George P. Clinton	Hammond Pond
Porella platyphylloidea (Schwein.) Lindb.	1822	Emmons	Norwich
Carex bromoides Willd.	1831	Collector unknown
Carex vesicaria L.	1836	Collector unknown
Carex vestita Willd.	1836	Collector unspecified
Kalmia angustifolia f. angustifolia	1838	L. DeWette	Northampton.
Kalmia latifolia var. latifolia	1838	L. DeWette	Northampton.
Pogonia ophioglossoides (L.) Ker Gawl.	1838	L. DeWette	Northampton.
Meleagris gallopavo silvestris Vieillot, 1817	1847	William D. Whitney	Mount Tom
Stellaria graminea L.	1849	not recorded

All 2,336 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 Loudville: 10 producers, 10 past producers, 1 occurrence. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Brick Clay, Clay, Lead. 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
Granite Rock Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer
Granite Rock Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Loudville	Molybdenum	Occurrence	Wulfenite
Loudville Lead Mine	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Barium-Barite	Producer	Barite, Galena
Loudville Mine	Barium-Barite, Lead, Silica, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Southhampton Barite Vein	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Molybdenum	Producer	Barite, Galena
Southhampton Barite Vein	Barium-Barite, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer
Southhampton Barite Vein/Loudville Pb Mine	Lead, Silver	Past Producer	Vein
Wzorek Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

Storms nearby

4 since 2020

The National Weather Service names Loudville in 4 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 4 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Loudville	$800	In Westhampton, a tree was down across Southampton Road near the Southampton town line. Also, large branches were down in Southampton on Route 10 near the center of town and on Rattle Hill Road.
November 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Loudville	$800	In Westhampton at 948 PM, a tree and wires were down on Loudville Road.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Loudville	$500	In Westhampton, a tree was down on Mine Road. Report relayed by amateur radio.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Loudville	$300	In Easthampton, multiple trees and power lines down.

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
West Farms	2.0 miles	42
Westhampton	2.2 miles	37
Pine Grove	3.5 miles	42
Easthampton	3.9 miles	42
Southampton	4.0 miles	43
Fomer	4.2 miles	37
Bay State	4.6 miles	42
Florence	4.8 miles	42

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608763. 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.