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

Monterey, Massachusetts

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Monterey town. It lies in ZIP code area 01245. It stands on Loom Brook. The Survey maps it on the Monterey quadrangle.

Monterey within Berkshire County

Then and now

1888 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Monterey, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Monterey, surveyed 1888

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

11 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Monterey between 2015 and 2020, burning about 6 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 burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
4 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 May 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
6 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
30 April 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
29 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
28 April 2015	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
25 April 2015	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,234 shown

Museums hold 2,234 specimens collected within 10 miles of Monterey between 1833 and 1975: 1,272 Plantae, 730 Animalia, 227 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Brown, A. E. Treat, A. Lorenz 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
Betula alleghaniensis Britton	1833	Collector unknown
Betula pumila L.	1833	Collector unspecified
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1833	Collector unknown
Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman	1833	Collector unknown
Parnassia caroliniana Michx.	1834	not recorded
Percopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)	1860	Britton McCabe	Green R. (trib. of Housatonic R.), 1 mi. S of Great Barrington on Rt. 23
Platanthera peramoena A.Gray	1863	J. T. Stewart	Glendale
Spiranthes magnicamporum Sheviak	1863	J. T. Stewart	Glendale
Gentianella quinquefolia subsp. quinquefolia	1875	not recorded
Acer saccharum Marshall	1897	Vail, A.M.	Tyringham
Acer spicatum Lam.	1897	Vail, A.M.	Vicinity of Tyringham
Acorus calamus L.	1897	Vail, A.M.	vicnity of Tyringham

All 2,234 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Monterey: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Eastern Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Mill River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

12 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Monterey in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1997	Tornado (F2)	Monterey	$1,500,000	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Monterey	$5,000	An upper level disturbance produced scattered thunderstorms across Berkshire County on the evening of July 18. One storm became briefly severe as thunderstorm winds blew a tree and large branches down in the town of Monterey.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Monterey	-	Trees were reported down on Fairview Road.
July 2020	Hail	Monterey	-	Nickel size hail was reported at Main Road and Tyringham Road.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Monterey	-	A tree was downed onto a car along Main Road.
February 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Monterey	-	Large trees snapped and uprooted near the Bidwell House Museum. Heavy construction equipment was thrown, causing building damage and tearing off wiring. Damage was in a concentrated area.
August 2015	Hail	Monterey	-	Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Monterey.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Monterey	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Monterey due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Monterey	-	Large tree limbs were reported down in Monterey due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Monterey	-	A trained spotter reported trees were blown down in Monterey.
May 1998	Hail	Monterey	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Monterey	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Berkshire 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
Camp Jayson	1.0 miles	38
Hephzibah Heights	1.5 miles	38
Hartsville	2.8 miles	40
West Otis	3.5 miles	38
New Marlborough	4.0 miles	38
Tyringham	4.6 miles	38
Mill River	5.4 miles	43
Southfield	5.5 miles	38

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607588. 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.