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

Mileoak Corner, Massachusetts

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wilbraham town. It lies in ZIP code area 01095. It stands on Rattlesnake Peak. The Survey maps it on the Hampden quadrangle.

Mileoak Corner 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 Mileoak Corner, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Mileoak Corner, surveyed 1887

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

227 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Mileoak Corner between 2002 and 2020, burning about 226 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	101
Equipment and vehicle use	65
Natural	24
Recreation and ceremony	17
Smoking	11
Debris and open burning	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
26 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 September 2018	Natural	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 1,563 shown

Museums hold 1,563 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mileoak Corner between 1845 and 1975: 653 Fungi, 543 Animalia, 339 Plantae, 15 Chromista, 13 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. E. Kirk, A. M. & D. P. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Taphrina johansonii Sadeb.	1894	W.G. Farlow
Lygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.	1895	Deane, Walter	East Longmeadow;;;;
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
Galeopsis tetrahit L.	1845	not recorded
Icterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)	1857	Collector(s): Joel Asaph Allen	Springfield
Pipilo erythrophthalmus erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1857	Collector(s): Joel Asaph Allen	Springfield
Setophaga aestiva aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1857	Collector(s): Joel Asaph Allen	Springfield
Turdus migratorius migratorius Linnaeus, 1766	1857	Collector(s): Joel Asaph Allen	Springfield
Rhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)	1859	Wheatland, R.H.	Chicopee River, at Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts; Locality according to historical catalogue: 'Chicopa River, Massachusetts'/erroneous, is Chicopee River, at Chicopee, Massachusetts (according to MCZ online fish catalogue).
Rhododendron canadense (L.) Torr.	1861	not recorded	Chicopee
Brevoortia tyrannus (Latrobe, 1802)	1863	Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe	Agawam River, at Agawam, Hampden County, Massachusetts; Locality according to historical inventory: 'Agawan River'/is Agawam River, at Agawam, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (according to MCZ online fish database).
Alnus incana (L.) Moench	1891	unknown	Woods Hall.

All 1,563 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Mileoak Corner: 5 producers, 4 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Flagstone, 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	Recorded
North Wilbraham Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
North Wilbraham Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Palmer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Sandstone
Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Sandstone
Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Sandstone
Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	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
Wilbraham	1.1 miles	38
North Wilbraham	3.2 miles	37
Hampden	3.3 miles	38
Sixteen Acres	3.5 miles	50
Butlerville	3.6 miles	37
East Wilbraham	3.9 miles	37
Ludlow	4.2 miles	37
Colton Hollow	4.4 miles	33

Elsewhere

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.

Wikidata item Q122598104

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609308. 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.