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

Mount Hermon Station, Massachusetts

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Northfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 01360. It stands on Bailey Brook. The Survey maps it on the Northfield quadrangle.

Mount Hermon Station within Franklin County

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 Mount Hermon Station, surveyed 1990

Topographic sheet of Mount Hermon Station, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

36 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Elijah E. Belding House, Mount Hermon Station Road, West Northfield, Franklin County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

21 since 2016

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Mount Hermon Station between 2016 and 2020, burning about 12 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	18
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	1
Smoking	1

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
14 July 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 May 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
30 April 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
29 April 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
25 April 2020	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 April 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 937 shown

Museums hold 937 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mount Hermon Station between 1847 and 1975: 343 Animalia, 297 Plantae, 186 Fungi, 111 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S Pease, A. Cronquist, A. J. Grout 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
Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt	1896	Leonard, F.E.	Northfield, Mass.
Cinna latifolia (Trevir. ex Göpp.) Griseb.	1847	Russell
unnamed (fossil)	1867	Othniel C. Marsh	Black shale (property of T. M. Stoughton, 1871 Beer County map, previously owned by Dr. Roswell Field) south side of Connecticut River, Horse Race, Montague
Rhexia virginica L.	1892	not recorded	Millers Falls
Spiranthes ochroleuca (Rydb.) Rydb.	1894	Swinerton, J.R.	Greenfield
Potamogeton bicupulatus Fernald	1895	A. J. Grout	Lily Pond
Carex plantaginea Lam.	1896	Sydney Harris	Woods near Factory Village [Note: Location found by Geolocate is in Franklin County]
Dryopteris intermedia (Muhl. ex Willd.) A.Gray	1896	Leonard, F.E.	Northfield
Cyperus lupulinus var. macilentus (Fernald) A.Haines	1899	J. A. Bates	Miller's Falls
Daedalea confragosa (Bolton) Pers.	1927	Hansbrough J. R.	Greenfield
Polyporales	1927	Skillinger L. F.	Greenfield
Amphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fernald	1928	S J E	Leyden, Mass.

All 937 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 14 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Mount Hermon Station: 7 past producers, 5 producers, 2 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Slate, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bernardston Magnetite Occurence	Iron, Sulfur, Copper	Occurrence	Replacement
Bernardston Magnetite Occurrence	Iron, Copper, Sulfur	Past Producer
Northfield Plant #38	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Northfield Washed Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Amphibolite Rock Quarry N	Stone	Past Producer
Amphibolite Rock Quarry N	Stone	Past Producer
Amphibolite Rock Quarry No. Bj5	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Amphibolite Rock Quarry No. Bj6	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Diabase Rock Quarry No. B	Stone	Past Producer
Diabase Rock Quarry No. Bj4	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mount Hermon	1.1 miles	36
Cold Spring	1.9 miles	37
Satans Kingdom	2.1 miles	36
Northfield	2.2 miles	36
Munns Ferry	2.4 miles	36
Gill Station	2.8 miles	36
East Northfield	2.9 miles	36
Gill	3.0 miles	36

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 Q122565618

The 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 609317. 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.