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

North Prescott, Massachusetts

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1990. It stands in New Salem town. It lies in ZIP code area 01355. It stands on Packard Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Quabbin Reservoir quadrangle.

North Prescott within Franklin County

Then and now

1887 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 103 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 Prescott, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of North Prescott, surveyed 1887

Compare 1887 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

32 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

7 since 2016

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of North Prescott between 2016 and 2020, burning about 6 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 burning5
Recreation and ceremony1
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
25 June 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 May 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 March 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
11 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 October 2016Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresMassachusetts 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 4,060 shown

Museums hold 4,060 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Prescott between 1860 and 1975: 3,072 Animalia, 665 Fungi, 316 Plantae, 3 Chromista, 3 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Gibson, A. C. Smith, A. Cronquist 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 Juncus articulatus, not of this specimenJuncus articulatus L.1860E. TuckermanMill Hollow, near Amherst
A photograph of the species Juncus pelocarpus, not of this specimenJuncus pelocarpus E.Mey.1860E. TuckermanShutesbury.
A photograph of the species Aralia nudicaulis, not of this specimenAralia nudicaulis L.1861Hopkins, L.S.Pelham Springs
A photograph of the species Cypripedium acaule, not of this specimenCypripedium acaule Aiton1861AnonymousPelham Springs
A photograph of the species Prunus serotina, not of this specimenPrunus serotina Ehrh.1861Hopkins, L.S.Pelham Springs
A photograph of the species Rhododendron viscosum, not of this specimenRhododendron viscosum (L.) Torr.1861not recordedPeham Springs
A photograph of the species Varicellaria velata, not of this specimenVaricellaria velata (Turner) I.Schmitt & Lumbsch1864E. Tuckerman
A photograph of the species Brasenia peltata, not of this specimenBrasenia peltata Pursh1892not recordedLeverett
A photograph of the species Woodsia obtusa, not of this specimenWoodsia obtusa (Spreng.) Torr.1892not recordedLeverett
A photograph of the species Anychia dichotoma, not of this specimenAnychia dichotoma (Moench) Michx.1893not recordedLeverett
A photograph of the species Poecile atricapillus, not of this specimenPoecile atricapillus atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766)1900Helme, Arthur HBelchertown, Enfield
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1928CL & LC HubbsTrib. of Miller's River, South Athol, NW border of Worcester Co., below a dam-pond, above res.; Connecticut system

All 4,060 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
Cooleyville1.6 miles32
Millington (historical)2.7 miles32
New Salem3.4 miles32
Shutesbury3.5 miles35
Prescott Center4.4 miles32
Prescott (historical)4.4 miles32
South Wendell5.1 miles32
Locks Village5.7 miles32

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 Q122547084The 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 609451. 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.