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

North Hancock, Massachusetts

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Hancock town. It lies in ZIP code area 01267. It lies in Bentley Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hancock quadrangle.

North Hancock within Berkshire County

Then and now

1888 to 1998

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 North Hancock, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of North Hancock, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

38 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

32 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of North Hancock between 2003 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning8
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
9 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2017Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
26 August 2011Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 July 2003Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,320 shown

Museums hold 1,320 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Hancock between 1828 and 1975: 608 Plantae, 534 Animalia, 162 Fungi, 9 Protozoa, 6 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A K Harrison, A Schwartz, A. Cowee 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 Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Richardson, 1823Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Richardson, 18231898J. R. Churchill
Specimen of Carex pensylvanica Lam.Carex pensylvanica Lam.1898J. R. Churchill
A photograph of the species Carex aestivalis, not of this specimenCarex aestivalis M.A.Curtis ex A.Gray1828Collector unknownSaddle Mountain, near Williamstown.
A photograph of the species Carex emmonsii, not of this specimenCarex emmonsii var. muhlenbergii (A.Gray ex Torrey) Rettig1828Collector unspecifiedWilliamstown. [Inferred locality from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Cystopteris bulbifera, not of this specimenCystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.1828Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Dryopteris goldiana, not of this specimenDryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray1828Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Fraxinus americana, not of this specimenFraxinus americana L.1828J. Torrey
Jamesoniella autumnalis (DC.) Steph.1828Ebenezer Emmons
A photograph of the species Tilia americana, not of this specimenTilia americana L.1828Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Scorzoneroides autumnalis, not of this specimenScorzoneroides autumnalis (L.) Moench1850not recorded
A photograph of the species Spiraea tomentosa, not of this specimenSpiraea tomentosa L.1850not recorded
A photograph of the species Buteo platypterus, not of this specimenButeo platypterus platypterus (Vieillot, 1823)1896Collector(s): B. HoagStephentown

All 1,320 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
New Ashford2.6 miles40
South Williamstown4.2 miles40
Steeles Corners4.2 miles40
Hancock5.1 miles38
Greylock Estates5.7 miles40
Hemlock Brook (historical)6.0 miles40
Sweets Corner6.2 miles40
Camp Mohawk7.1 miles40

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 Q122555269The 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 607613. 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.