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

North Chester, Massachusetts

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Chester town. It lies in ZIP code area 01050. It stands on Bemis Hill. The Survey maps it on the Chester quadrangle.

North Chester within Hampden 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 North Chester, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of North Chester, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

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.

Fires nearby

2 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of North Chester between 2020 and 2020, burning about 0 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1

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
9 March 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 March 2020Debris and open burningunder 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 306 shown

Museums hold 306 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Chester between 1822 and 1975: 215 Animalia, 72 Plantae, 19 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Pealey, Ahles, H.E., Andrew J. Main 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
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylloidea, not of this specimenPorella platyphylloidea (Schwein.) Lindb.1822EmmonsNorwich
A photograph of the species Panax quinquefolius, not of this specimenPanax quinquefolius L.1831Collector unspecifiedBlandford
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium depauperatum, not of this specimenDichanthelium depauperatum (Muhl.) Gould1868Joseph BlakeWesthampton
A photograph of the species Buteo platypterus, not of this specimenButeo platypterus (Vieillot, 1823)1870Crum, Milo Tuttle; Clinton Mellen Jones CollectionRussell
A photograph of the species Poecile atricapillus, not of this specimenPoecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766)1870Clinton Mellen Jones CollectionRussell
A photograph of the species Lygodium palmatum, not of this specimenLygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.1872Miller, E.S.East Hampton
A photograph of the species Eleusine indica, not of this specimenEleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.1874Frederick N. Pease
A photograph of the species Leucobryum glaucum, not of this specimenLeucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ångstr.1877H. J. BiddlecomeChester
A photograph of the species Botrychium dissectum, not of this specimenBotrychium dissectum Spreng.1879not recorded
A photograph of the species Dendroica discolor, not of this specimenDendroica discolor discolor (Vieillot, 1809)1891Clarence WatrousChester
Dendroica virens virens (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1891Henry BennettChester
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus fuscus (Green, 1818)1921F.N. BlanchardChester

All 306 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 22 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of North Chester: 8 occurrences, 8 past producers, 5 producers, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Emery, Silica, Iron, Lithium. 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
Chrome-Magnetite MineIron, ChromiumPast Producer
Sackett Emery MineIron, EmeryOccurrence1875
McKinney LedgeMicaOccurrenceMica
McKinney Ledge ProspectMicaProspect
Whetstone QuarryStoneProducerMetamorphic
Whetstone QuarryStonePast Producer
Norwich Lithia MineLithiumProducer
Norwich Lithia MineLithiumPast Producer
Norwich Lithia MineLithiumPast Producer
Sackett Emery MineIronPast ProducerMagnetite

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Storms nearby

1 since 2021

The National Weather Service names North Chester in 1 storm report between 2021 and 2021: 1 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
July 2021Flash FloodNorth Chester$7,000In Chester, flash flooding caused a portion of Skyline Trail to be washed out.

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
Dayville1.9 miles36
Chester Center2.3 miles36
Littleville3.1 miles36
Chester4.1 miles36
Crescent Mills8.0 miles37
North Blandford8.3 miles36
Blandford9.9 miles36
Russell9.9 miles37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608338. 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.