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

North Bernardston, Massachusetts

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Bernardston town. It lies in ZIP code area 01337. It stands on Shattuck Brook. The Survey maps it on the Bernardston quadrangle.

North Bernardston within Franklin County

Then and now

1890 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 108 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 Bernardston, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of North Bernardston, surveyed 1890

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

11 since 2017

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of North Bernardston between 2017 and 2020, burning about 8 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 burning7
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
14 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
11 June 2018Other causes3.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 April 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 April 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 April 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 779 shown

Museums hold 779 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Bernardston between 1847 and 1975: 316 Animalia, 216 Plantae, 136 Fungi, 111 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S Pease, A. J. Grout, A. S. Pease 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 Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) WattDryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt1896Leonard, F.E.Northfield, Mass.
A photograph of the species Cinna latifolia, not of this specimenCinna latifolia (Trevir. ex Göpp.) Griseb.1847Russell
unnamed (fossil)1867Othniel C. MarshBlack shale (property of T. M. Stoughton, 1871 Beer County map, previously owned by Dr. Roswell Field) south side of Connecticut River, Horse Race, Montague
A photograph of the species Spiranthes ochroleuca, not of this specimenSpiranthes ochroleuca (Rydb.) Rydb.1894Swinerton, J.R.Greenfield
A photograph of the species Potamogeton bicupulatus, not of this specimenPotamogeton bicupulatus Fernald1895A. J. GroutLily Pond
Rhexia virginica L.1895A. J. GroutLily Pond
A photograph of the species Carex plantaginea, not of this specimenCarex plantaginea Lam.1896Sydney HarrisWoods near Factory Village [Note: Location found by Geolocate is in Franklin County]
A photograph of the species Dryopteris intermedia, not of this specimenDryopteris intermedia (Muhl. ex Willd.) A.Gray1896Leonard, F.E.Northfield
A photograph of the species Daedalea confragosa, not of this specimenDaedalea confragosa (Bolton) Pers.1927Hansbrough J. R.Greenfield
A photograph of the species Dasyscyphus calycinus, not of this specimenDasyscyphus calycinus (Schumach.) Fuckel1927Hansbrough J. R.Colrain
A photograph of the species Fomes fomentarius, not of this specimenFomes fomentarius (L.) Fr.1927Skellanger L. E.Colrain
Nectria cinnabarina (Tode) Fr.1927Hansbrough J. R.Colrain

All 779 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 12 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of North Bernardston: 5 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Slate, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Sulfur, Copper, Iron. 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
Amphibolite Rock Quarry NStonePast Producer
Amphibolite Rock Quarry No. Bj5Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bernardston Magnetite OccurenceIron, Sulfur, CopperOccurrenceReplacement
Bernardston Magnetite OccurrenceIron, Copper, SulfurPast Producer
West Leyden Copper ProspectSulfidesOccurrenceReplacement
West Leyden Copper ProspectSulfurProspect
Northfield Plant #38Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Northfield Washed Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
North Bernardston Slate QuarrySlate, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
North Bernardston Slate QuarrySlate, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms nearby

3 since 2011

The National Weather Service names North Bernardston in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2011FloodNorth Bernardston$22,000,000After receiving eight to ten inches of rain associated with Tropical Storm Irene, major flooding occurred to portions of northwest Massachusetts, from Greenfield northwest through Colrain, Leyden, and vicinity. There were evacuations- exact amount unknown- and there were homes that were condemned. A house on West Leyden Road was reported to have been washed away in Leyden on the Green River. Multiple major routes/highways were affected in western Massachusetts, including Route 2, I-91, Route 20, Route 5, and Route 112 as well as numerous smaller roads. A flood survey along the Deerfield River indicated that in between Routes 5 and I-91, a large swath of farmland was inundated, and many homes within that stretch experienced various degrees of flooding. The Mohawk Meadow Country Club at the junction of the Connecticut and Deerfield Rivers was submerged. A covered bridge on Eunice Williams Drive over the Green River sustained severe damage and was no longer attached to its abutments. In Greenfield, the Arbors Assisted Living facility on Meridian Street was evacuated due to flooding.||The Deerfield River at West Deerfield set a new flood of record at 23.8 feet, the previous record was 17.71 feet set in April of 1987. The North River at Shattuckville set a new flood of record at 17.66 feet, the previous record was 12.32 feet set in October of 2005. In addition the Connecticut River at Montague crested at its highest level since the 1938 hurricane.
August 2015FloodNorth Bernardston$1,000Keets Brook Road was flooded and impassable between Leyden and Bernardston. The road was starting to wash out at the time of the report.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindNorth Bernardston$800In Bernardston, there was a tree and power lines down on Brattleboro Rd.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Leyden3.3 miles36
Bernardston3.6 miles37
Hales Crossing4.5 miles37
Satans Kingdom5.0 miles36
Mount Hermon Station5.0 miles36
West Leyden5.0 miles36
Cold Spring5.0 miles37
Stewartville5.3 miles36

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 Q122597170The 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 608778. 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.