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

North Wilbraham, Massachusetts

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wilbraham town. It lies in ZIP code area 01095. It stands on Spear Brook. The Survey maps it on the Ludlow quadrangle.

North Wilbraham within Hampden County

Then and now

1887 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 98 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 Wilbraham, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of North Wilbraham, surveyed 1887

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

182 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of North Wilbraham between 2015 and 2020, burning about 101 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	88
Equipment and vehicle use	52
Recreation and ceremony	17
Natural	9
Smoking	6
Debris and open burning	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
26 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,538 shown

Museums hold 1,538 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Wilbraham between 1845 and 1975: 706 Fungi, 409 Plantae, 393 Animalia, 16 Chromista, 13 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. E. Kirk, A. M. & D. P. Rogers 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Taphrina johansonii Sadeb.	1894	W.G. Farlow
Lygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.	1895	Deane, Walter	East Longmeadow;;;;
Polygonum pensylvanicum L.	1897	Morris,E.L. s.n. [1897-08]	[label: Flora of North America - Herbarium of E.L. Morris] Monson. Massachussets. Rubbish heaps
Galeopsis tetrahit L.	1845	not recorded
Icterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)	1857	Collector(s): Joel Asaph Allen	Springfield
Pipilo erythrophthalmus erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1857	Collector(s): Joel Asaph Allen	Springfield
Setophaga aestiva aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1857	Collector(s): Joel Asaph Allen	Springfield
Turdus migratorius migratorius Linnaeus, 1766	1857	Collector(s): Joel Asaph Allen	Springfield
Carex platyphylla J.Carey	1858	J. Blake	Mt. Holyoke
Geranium robertianum L.	1858	not recorded	Mt. Holyoke
Viola pubescens Aiton	1858	not recorded	Mt. Holyoke
Rhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)	1859	Wheatland, R.H.	Chicopee River, at Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts; Locality according to historical catalogue: 'Chicopa River, Massachusetts'/erroneous, is Chicopee River, at Chicopee, Massachusetts (according to MCZ online fish catalogue).

All 1,538 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 Wilbraham: 6 producers, 6 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Sandstone
Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Banas S & G Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Banas Sand and Gravel Co Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Bruschi Brothers	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Cheniers Gravel Bank	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Cheniers Gravel Bank	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lyons Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Machados Pit & Bruschi Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
North Wilbraham Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Storms nearby

17 since 2007

The National Weather Service names North Wilbraham in 17 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	North Wilbraham	$15,000	Trees on Stony Hill and Brainard Roads and Ruth Drive were downed by thunderstorm winds.
February 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	North Wilbraham	$10,000	Trees on Lee Lane in Wilbraham were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	North Wilbraham	$10,000	Trees were downed onto wires on Birch Street and Leemond Street.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	North Wilbraham	$5,000	A tree and wires on Lake Drive were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	North Wilbraham	$5,000	Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	North Wilbraham	$5,000	Trees and wires down on Stoney Hill Road and near K-Mart were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	North Wilbraham	$3,000	Trees on Mohawk Street were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	North Wilbraham	$800	In Wilbraham, a large tree and wires were down on Mountain Road.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	North Wilbraham	$500	Tree down on power lines on Three Rivers Road in Palmer.
July 2019	Flood	North Wilbraham	-	There was 18 inches of street flooding on the southern end of Maynard Road in Wilbraham.
December 2019	Hail	North Wilbraham	-	Dime size hail from a thunderstorm was reported in Wilbraham.
June 2017	Hail	North Wilbraham	-	At 205 PM EST, a trained spotter reported nickel-size hail at Wilbraham.
June 2017	Hail	North Wilbraham	-	AT 220 PM EST, a trained spotter reported nickel-size hail at Wilbraham.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	North Wilbraham	-	Large trees down.
July 2011	Hail	North Wilbraham	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	North Wilbraham	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	North Wilbraham	-	no account filed

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Butlerville	1.1 miles	37
East Wilbraham	1.6 miles	37
Red Bridge	1.7 miles	37
Wilbraham	2.0 miles	38
Ludlow	2.8 miles	37
Mileoak Corner	3.2 miles	38
Ludlow Center	3.2 miles	37
Three Rivers	3.9 miles	35

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609324. 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.