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

New Lenox, Massachusetts

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Lenox town. It lies in ZIP code area 01240. It stands on Mill Brook. The Survey maps it on the Pittsfield East quadrangle.

New Lenox within Berkshire County

Then and now

1886 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 111 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of New Lenox, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of New Lenox, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

37 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

107 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of New Lenox between 2002 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning50
Recreation and ceremony21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
18 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 September 2017Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 September 2016Other causesunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 August 2002Smokingunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,508 shown

Museums hold 1,508 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Lenox between 1833 and 1975: 580 Plantae, 563 Animalia, 357 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Evans, A. H. Mead, A. K. Harrison 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 Bombus ternarius Say, 1837Bombus ternarius Say, 18371898[Not Stated]Hinsdale
Specimen of Potamogeton pusillus subsp. tenuissimus (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) K.Richt.Potamogeton pusillus subsp. tenuissimus (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) K.Richt.1900P. B. Weatherbee
A photograph of the species Betula alleghaniensis, not of this specimenBetula alleghaniensis Britton1833Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Betula pumila, not of this specimenBetula pumila L.1833Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Carex utriculata, not of this specimenCarex utriculata Boott1833W. L. Worcester
A photograph of the species Dennstaedtia punctilobula, not of this specimenDennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore1833Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Gymnocarpium dryopteris, not of this specimenGymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman1833Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Parnassia caroliniana, not of this specimenParnassia caroliniana Michx.1834not recorded
A photograph of the species Persicaria amphibia, not of this specimenPersicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre1835C. A. ShurtleffPittsfield
A photograph of the species Solidago patula, not of this specimenSolidago patula Muhl. ex Willd.1858Brewer; Chickering
A photograph of the species Platanthera peramoena, not of this specimenPlatanthera peramoena A.Gray1863J. T. StewartGlendale
A photograph of the species Poa trivialis, not of this specimenPoa trivialis L.1898A. K. HarrisonLebanon Springs

All 1,508 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 19 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of New Lenox: 10 past producers, 6 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
North Adams Lime QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerStratabound
General Sand and Stone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lenox Dale PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Lenox Dale PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vincent Pit & Plnt Pittsfield S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vincent Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Andrews MineIronPast Producer
Bacon MineIronProducer1846
Bacon MineIronOccurrence
Belden MineIronProducerLimonite

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

5 since 2008

The National Weather Service names New Lenox in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindNew Lenox-Trees and wires were reported down.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindNew Lenox-Trees were downed on a house on New Lenox Road near the Town of Lenox.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Lenox-Trees were downed on Holmes Road in Pittsfield due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindNew Lenox-Several tree limbs were reported down approximately 4 miles south of Pittsfield due to strong thunderstorm winds. In addition, penny size hail was also reported during this thunderstorm.
July 2008HailNew Lenox-Penny size hail was reported approximately 4 miles south of Pittsfield during a thunderstorm. In addition, several tree limbs were reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Eastover1.8 miles42
Lenox Station3.1 miles38
Lenox3.4 miles42
Pittsfield3.8 miles37
Lakewood3.9 miles37
Barkerville4.0 miles44
Lenox Dale4.0 miles38
Camp Marion White4.2 miles44

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607607. 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.