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Millers Falls, Massachusetts

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Erving town. It lies in ZIP code area 01344. It stands on East Mineral Hill. The Survey maps it on the Millers Falls quadrangle. 994 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 299 feet above sea level.

Millers Falls within Franklin County

Population over time

2 figures

Millers Falls fell from 1,139 to 994 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,139
2020994-145 (-13%)

Then and now

1887 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Millers Falls, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Millers Falls, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

32 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

23 since 2017

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Millers Falls between 2017 and 2020, burning about 14 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
Debris and open burning13
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
17 August 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 June 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 May 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 May 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 April 2018Smoking1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
19 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 5,467 shown

Museums hold 5,467 specimens collected within 10 miles of Millers Falls between 1822 and 1975: 3,339 Animalia, 1,191 Plantae, 802 Fungi, 115 Unrecorded, 16 Protozoa, 4 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S Pease, A. C. Smith, A. Clark 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 Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) WattDryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt1896Leonard, F.E.Northfield, Mass.
A photograph of the species Ptilidium pulcherrimum, not of this specimenPtilidium pulcherrimum (Weber) Hampe1822Ebenezer Emmons
A photograph of the species Cinna latifolia, not of this specimenCinna latifolia (Trevir. ex Göpp.) Griseb.1847Russell
A photograph of the species Juncus pelocarpus, not of this specimenJuncus pelocarpus E.Mey.1860E. TuckermanShutesbury.
unnamed (fossil)1867Othniel C. Marshblack sh, [property of T.M. Stoughton, 1871 Beers County map, previously owned by Dr. Roswell Field], S side of Connecticut River, Horse Race, Montague
A photograph of the species Brasenia peltata, not of this specimenBrasenia peltata Pursh1892not recordedLeverett
A photograph of the species Carex pedunculata, not of this specimenCarex pedunculata Muhl. ex Willd.1892J. R. ChurchillMount Toby
A photograph of the species Carex prasina, not of this specimenCarex prasina Wahlenb.1892J. R. ChurchillMontague
A photograph of the species Carex torta, not of this specimenCarex torta Boott1892J. R. ChurchillMontague
A photograph of the species Hedeoma pulegioides, not of this specimenHedeoma pulegioides (L.) Pers.1892not recordedMt. Toby
Rhexia virginica L.1892not recordedMillers Falls
Spiranthes gracilis (Bigelow) L.C.Beck1892not recordedMt. Toby

All 5,467 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Millers Falls: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite, Copper, Iron, Copper, Barium-Barite. 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
Turner Falls Copper Occurence NorthCopper, Barium-BariteOccurrenceMalachite
Turner Falls Copper Occurence SouthwestBarium-Barite, Copper, IronOccurrence
Turner Falls Copper ProspectBarium-Barite, CopperProspect
Greenfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mackin Sand and Gravel IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
East Deerfield Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Town of Greenfield PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Warner Brothers IncStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms nearby

9 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Millers Falls in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 flash flood. 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 2021Flash FloodMillers Falls$10,000In the Millers Falls section of Montague, several streets were closed due to flooding. Federal Street had 3 feet of water in the road. Flood waters were entering a business.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindMillers Falls$10,000Trees and wires on West Mineral Road and West Main Street were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMillers Falls$9,000In Montague, in the Millers Falls portion of town, a large tree was down on a house and a car on the 800 block of Wendell Road. Trees were also downed on the 900 block of Wendell Road.
July 2021FloodMillers Falls$4,000In Erving, there was a flooded basement at 21 Pleasant Street.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMillers Falls$1,300In Erving, a large tree and wires were down on French King Highway.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMillers Falls$1,000In Wendell, a tree and lines were down on Montague Rd and also on Mormon Hollow Rd.
August 2015FloodMillers Falls-One hundred yards of Route 63 near Millers Falls Road was flooded.
September 2012FloodMillers Falls-Federal Street was flooded and impassable in the Millers Falls section of Montague.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindMillers Falls-Trees were reported blown down.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Grounts Corner0.3 miles32
Lake Pleasant2.2 miles32
Northfield Farms2.5 miles32
Farley3.1 miles32
Montague Station3.5 miles32
Riverside3.5 miles32
Turners Falls3.7 miles32
Montague3.9 miles32

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.

Wikipedia article on Millers FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6859350The 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 609184. 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.