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

Montague Station, 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 Station 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 Station, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Montague Station, 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

32 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Montague Station between 2003 and 2020, burning about 15 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 burning20
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
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
17 August 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 June 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 May 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
30 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 April 2018Debris 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 5,768 shown

Museums hold 5,768 specimens collected within 10 miles of Montague Station between 1822 and 1975: 3,317 Animalia, 1,347 Plantae, 966 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
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
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 5,768 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 Montague Station: 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

7 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Montague Station in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 lightning. 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
August 2018LightningMontague Station$8,000At 1:30 PM EST, a house fire due to lightning was reported near State Route 63 in Montague.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindMontague Station$5,000Tree down on wires on Swamp Road in Montague. Multiple trees down on North Leverett Road in Montague.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindMontague Station$5,000A tree and wires on Denton Street were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindMontague Station$5,000Wires on Pleasant Road and Adams Street were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMontague Station$300In Montague, tree reported down on a road.
August 2015FloodMontague Station-Turners Falls Road was flooded with one and a half feet of water near Hatchery Road.
June 2011HailMontague Station-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
Montague0.6 miles32
Lake Pleasant1.2 miles32
East Deerfield2.2 miles32
North Sunderland3.0 miles32
Grounts Corner3.2 miles32
East Greenfield3.3 miles32
Cheapside3.3 miles32
North Leverett3.3 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.

Wikidata item Q122596319The 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 617768. 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.