Northfield, Massachusetts

Northfield fell from 1,089 to 1,051 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

1887 1990

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.

• 1887 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
• 1932 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:48000
• 1935 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS Keene quadrangle1:125000
• 1945 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1945 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1946 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1990 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:25000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Northfield between 2016 and 2020, burning about 9 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• East Northfield
• East Northfield Station
• Mount Hermon Station
• Satans Kingdom
• West Northfield
• Bernardston

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Museums hold 718 specimens collected within 10 miles of Northfield between 1847 and 1975: 315 Animalia, 163 Plantae, 129 Fungi, 111 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S Pease, A. Cronquist, A. J. Grout 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt	1896	Leonard, F.E.	Northfield, Mass.
	Cinna latifolia (Trevir. ex Göpp.) Griseb.	1847	Russell
	unnamed (fossil)	1867	Othniel C. Marsh	Black shale (property of T. M. Stoughton, 1871 Beer County map, previously owned by Dr. Roswell Field) south side of Connecticut River, Horse Race, Montague
	Potamogeton bicupulatus Fernald	1895	A. J. Grout	Lily Pond
	Rhexia virginica L.	1895	A. J. Grout	Lily Pond
	Carex plantaginea Lam.	1896	Sydney Harris	Woods near Factory Village [Note: Location found by Geolocate is in Franklin County]
	Dryopteris intermedia (Muhl. ex Willd.) A.Gray	1896	Leonard, F.E.	Northfield
	Cronartium comptoniae Arthur	1928	Spaulding P.	Turners Falls
	Apanteles Förster, 1863	1929	J. Schaffner	Bernardston
	Fusicladium saliciperdum (Allesch. & Tubeuf) Lind	1929	Spaulding P.	Leyden
	Lycopodium obscurum L.	1930	M.M. Metcalf	Northfield, Massachusetts.
	Ophioglossum pusillum Raf.	1930	not recorded	Northfield.

All 718 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Northfield: 4 producers, 4 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Franklin County

The National Weather Service names Northfield in 33 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 24 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 lightning. 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.

Every storm recorded in Franklin County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609322. 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.