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

Montague, Massachusetts

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Montague town. It lies in ZIP code area 01351. It stands on Pond Brook. The Survey maps it on the Greenfield quadrangle.

Montague within Franklin County

Then and now

1890 to 1990

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 Montague, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Montague, surveyed 1890

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

34 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Montague between 2002 and 2020, burning about 74 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
Debris and open burning19
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
19 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
17 August 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 June 2020Natural56 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlJOSHUA HILL FIRE
23 June 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 May 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 April 2019Debris 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 5,789 shown

Museums hold 5,789 specimens collected within 10 miles of Montague between 1822 and 1975: 3,326 Animalia, 1,358 Plantae, 967 Fungi, 115 Unrecorded, 17 Protozoa, 6 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S Pease, A V Osmun, A. C. Smith 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 Septoria petroselini Desm.Septoria petroselini Desm.1895R. E. SmithHothouse, Mass. Agr. College
Specimen of Bombus perplexus Cresson, 1863Bombus perplexus Cresson, 18631897[Not Stated]Hatch Experiment Station
Specimen of Bombus bimaculatus Cresson, 1863Bombus bimaculatus Cresson, 18631899[Not Stated]Hatch Experiment Station
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 articulatus, not of this specimenJuncus articulatus L.1860E. TuckermanMill Hollow, near Amherst
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

All 5,789 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Montague: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Copper, Iron. 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
Leverett ProspectsBarium-Barite, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Turner Falls Copper Occurence SouthwestBarium-Barite, Copper, IronOccurrence
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

16 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Montague in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMontague$250,000no account filed
July 2004LightningMontague$35,000no account filed
May 2010Thunderstorm WindMontague$20,000Trees along Route 63 were downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindMontague$15,000Multiple trees were downed onto Old Sunderland Road and Taylor Hills Road.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMontague$15,000Trees and wires on Greenfield Road were downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2008Thunderstorm WindMontague$8,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindMontague$5,000A tree at the intersection of South and Federal Streets was downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindMontague$5,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMontague$3,000A tree was down on a house on North Taylor Hill Road. Multiple trees down on Ferry Road and South Ferry Road. Wires were down on Main Street.
December 2022FloodMontague$1,000A public MPing report was received from 2 miles south of Montague center, indicating either a creek overflowing or basement flooding. Rainfall in the area ranged from 1.45 inches in Greenfield (CWOP) to 3.50 inches in Shelburne Falls (CoCoRaHS).
May 2012Thunderstorm WindMontague$1,000Large branches on Turners Falls Road were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindMontague$800In Montague, a tree and wires were down on Center Street.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindMontague-In Montague, a tree was down in the area of Sunderland Road.
July 1994HailMontague-A man who was leaning on his auto in his driveway was jolted by a nearby lightning strike. He was kept and treated overnight at a local hospital, then released.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMontague-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMontague-no account filed

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
Montague Station0.6 miles32
Lake Pleasant1.7 miles32
North Sunderland2.5 miles32
East Deerfield2.7 miles32
North Leverett2.9 miles32
Grounts Corner3.6 miles32
East Greenfield3.7 miles32
Cheapside3.7 miles32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608899. 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.