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

Mundale, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Westfield City. It lies in ZIP code area 01085. It stands on Walker Brook. The Survey maps it on the Southwick quadrangle.

Mundale within Hampden County

Then and now

1887 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mundale, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Mundale, surveyed 1887

Compare 1887 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

42 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

91 since 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Mundale between 2010 and 2020, burning about 435 acres in total. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	58
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
Fireworks	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
9 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2018	Natural	2.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
11 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,103 shown

Museums hold 2,103 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mundale between 1831 and 1975: 1,262 Fungi, 599 Plantae, 169 Animalia, 57 Chromista, 16 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & A. C. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & Clara E. Cummings 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
Fungi	1890	Seymour, Arthur Bliss	Granville
Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.	1890	Arthur B. Seymour	Granville
Lycopodiella inundata (L.) Holub	1892	Chapman	Southhampton
Carex bromoides Willd.	1831	Collector unknown
Panax quinquefolius L.	1831	Collector unspecified	Blandford
Carex vesicaria L.	1836	Collector unknown
Carex vestita Willd.	1836	Collector unspecified
Carex siccata Dewey	1844	Collector unknown
Amphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fernald	1845	Collector unspecified
Alopecurus geniculatus L.	1850	not recorded
Lactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt.	1850	Collector unspecified
Chelone glabra L.	1891	not recorded

All 2,103 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 16 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Mundale: 9 past producers, 6 producers, 1 occurrence. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, Dimension. 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
Hampden Marble Quarry Series	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
John S Lane and Son Inc	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Westfield Deposit	Kyanite	Occurrence
Westfield Quarry Plants L & 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hampden Marble Quarry Serpentine Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Metamorphic
Serpentine Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Metamorphic
Serpentine Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Lane Construction Corp	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Moore Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Southwick Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Storms nearby

5 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Mundale in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2011	Flood	Mundale	$1,000,000	After receiving five to six inches of rain associated with Tropical Storm Irene, Granville Road in Westfield washed out. Route 202 and Union Street were closed due to flooding from the Westfield River. Houses on Ellsworth Street were evacuated due to the flooding on the Westfield River.
August 2013	Flash Flood	Mundale	$50,000	In Westfield, several cars were stuck in flood waters near Westfield Industrial Park Road. Several water rescues occurred. East Mountain Road, North Elm Street, and Meadow Street were flooded with cars stuck in the flood waters. Canal Drive was closed after flooding caused a section of the road to collapse. In Holyoke, a section of Northampton Road was washed out. Lyman, Walnut, Cabot, and Commercial Streets were all flooded. A car was submerged at the intersection of Cabot and Commercial Streets, occupants had to be rescued. Route 5 (or Riverdale Street) in West Springfield was flooded. In Chicopee, Broadway at Saint James Avenue was closed because of flooding. Meadow Street and Meeting House Road also were flooded.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mundale	$8,000	In Westfield, two trees and wires were down on Bates Rd. by Belden Dr. Trees were also down on Pochassic St, Union St, Lewellyn Dr, Russellville Rd, and Jefferson St. There was a tree down on a house on Broad St. Power lines were down on Bush St and Washington St. On Montgomery Rd the top half of a 40-50 feet tall, 2-3 feet diameter pine tree was snapped off.
November 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Mundale	$500	In Westfield at 949 PM EST, a tree was down on Western Avenue.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Mundale	-	In West Springfield, Route 20 flooded just west of Elm Street and also near Ohio Avenue with nearly two feet of water. It was closed in some spots. Manhole covers also popped off in several places. Portions of Federal and Worthington Streets in Springfield were closed due to flooding. Sargent, Canal, and Dwight Streets in Holyoke were closed due to flooding. East Mountain Road was closed on the Westfield/Southwick line due to flooding. Also in Westfield, Lockhouse Road and Archer Street were flooded with up to 8 inches of water. In Agawam, Route 187 at North West Street was flooded and impassable.

Every storm recorded in Hampden 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
South Quarter	3.1 miles	37
Woronoco	3.3 miles	37
Westfield	3.3 miles	43
Trainfield	3.4 miles	37
Camp Woronoak	4.0 miles	37
Wyben	4.1 miles	37
Woronoco Heights	4.4 miles	37
Granville	4.5 miles	42

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 598532. 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.