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

North Agawam, Massachusetts

48 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Agawam Town City. It lies in ZIP code area 01001. It stands on Block Brook. The Survey maps it on the West Springfield quadrangle.

North Agawam within Hampden County

Then and now

1886 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of North Agawam, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of North Agawam, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

48 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

427 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 427 fires within 5 miles of North Agawam between 2015 and 2020, burning about 144 acres in total. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined235
Equipment and vehicle use108
Debris and open burning25
Recreation and ceremony25
Natural15
Smoking14
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2018Natural2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,419 shown

Museums hold 1,419 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Agawam between 1844 and 1975: 562 Animalia, 461 Plantae, 353 Fungi, 32 Chromista, 11 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour; S., A. K. Harrison, F. G. Floyd 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 Sphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.Sphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.1893Daniel C. Eaton
Specimen of Taphrina johansonii Sadeb.Taphrina johansonii Sadeb.1894W.G. Farlow
Specimen of Lygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.Lygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.1895Deane, WalterEast Longmeadow;;;;
A photograph of the species Carex siccata, not of this specimenCarex siccata Dewey1844Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Amphicarpaea bracteata, not of this specimenAmphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fernald1845Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Galeopsis tetrahit, not of this specimenGaleopsis tetrahit L.1845not recorded
A photograph of the species Alopecurus geniculatus, not of this specimenAlopecurus geniculatus L.1850not recorded
A photograph of the species Lactuca hirsuta, not of this specimenLactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt.1850Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Carex canescens, not of this specimenCarex canescens L.1852Collector unknownWestfield.
A photograph of the species Carex pallescens, not of this specimenCarex pallescens L.1852Collector unknownWestfield
A photograph of the species Eurybia schreberi, not of this specimenEurybia schreberi (Nees) Nees1852C. A. Shurtleff
Alnus incana (L.) Moench1891unknownWoods Hall.

All 1,419 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 43 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of North Agawam: 22 past producers, 16 producers, 4 occurrences, 1 unknown. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Brick Clay, Clay. 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
Macia Emery MineEmeryOccurrenceEmery
W. New England Smelting Works IncCopperProducer
Sandstone QuarryStone, DimensionProducerSandstone
Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Sandstone QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Sandstone QuarryStone, DimensionProducerSandstone
Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Clay PitBrick ClayProducerClay
Clay PitBrick ClayProducerClay

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Storms nearby

12 since 2016

The National Weather Service names North Agawam in 12 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2016FloodNorth Agawam$5,000The intersection of Sylvan and Park Streets was flooded and impassable. The Route 5 tunnel was flooded and traffic was rerouted to the rotary above the tunnel. The Union Street underpass was flooded and impassable with damage to the road.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindNorth Agawam$1,500In Agawam, a tree and wires were down on High Street and Line Street.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindNorth Agawam$1,000Tree down on wires on Neptune Avenue in West Springfield. Also, a large limb was down on Prospect Avenue and Quarry Road in West Springfield.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindNorth Agawam$1,000At 240 PM EST, a tree was down on Hanover Street in West Springfield.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindNorth Agawam$1,000At 11 PM EST, an amateur radio operator reported a tree down on wires on Maple Street in West Springfield.
July 2017FloodNorth Agawam$1,000At 645 PM EST, an amateur radio operator reported that the southbound U.S. Route 5 tunnel in West Springfield was flooded and impassable.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindNorth Agawam$800In West Springfield, a tree and wires were down. Report relayed by amateur radio.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNorth Agawam$500In West Springfield, multiple limbs were down on Park Ave.
July 2023Flash FloodNorth Agawam-In West Springfield, the southbound side of Rt 5 was flooded and closed.
July 2023Flash FloodNorth Agawam-In West Springfield, River St was flooded.
January 2018FloodNorth Agawam-Up to a foot of street flooding on Memorial Avenue in West Springfield.
August 2016FloodNorth Agawam-The River Street underpass was flooded and impassable with several cars stuck in flood waters.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mittineague0.7 miles48
O'Briens Corner0.7 miles48
West Springfield1.0 miles50
Merrick1.4 miles50
Riverdale1.4 miles50
West Agawam1.5 miles48
Brightwood1.8 miles50
North End2.0 miles50

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 Q122557851The 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 608904. 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.