Monroe Bridge, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 1998

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.

• 1886 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1890 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Brattleboro quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:24000
• 1947 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:31680
• 1947 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:24000
• 1973 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:25000
• 1973 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:24000
• 1973 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:25000
• 1990 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:25000
• 1997 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:24000
• 1998 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Monroe Bridge between 2006 and 2020, burning about 16 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Hoosac Tunnel Station
• Zoar
• Camp Rowe
• Rowe
• Ashfield
• Blissville

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Museums hold 171 specimens collected within 10 miles of Monroe Bridge between 1878 and 1975: 73 Plantae, 71 Fungi, 18 Animalia, 7 Protozoa, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Ahles, H.E., Britton McCabe, C. A. Weatherby 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Cyperus fuscus L.	1878	C. E. Faxon
	Galeopsis ladanum L.	1878	not recorded
	Symphyotrichum lanceolatum (Willd.) G.L.Nesom	1878	T. Morong
	Gentiana linearis Froel.	1904	F. F. Forbes	Hawley.
	Kalmia latifolia L.	1904	not recorded
	Viola canadensis var. canadensis	1904	L. A. Leavitt
	Viola × fernaldii House	1904	not recorded
	Antennaria parlinii subsp. fallax (Greene) R.J.Bayer & Stebbins	1905	not recorded
	Viola septentrionalis Greene	1905	not recorded
	Dasyscyphus calycinus (Schumach.) Fuckel	1927	Hansbrough J. R.; Skellenger L. E.	Charlemont
	Morrisonia latex (Guenée, 1852)	1928	not recorded	Monroe
	Plagodis serinaria (Herrich-Schäffer)	1928	not recorded	Monroe

All 171 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Monroe Bridge: 7 past producers, 5 occurrences, 4 producers, 4 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Copper, Copper, Sulfur, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Franklin County

The National Weather Service names Monroe Bridge in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2014: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Franklin County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607923. 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.