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Norwich Bridge, Massachusetts

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Huntington town. It lies in ZIP code area 01050. It stands on Middle Branch Westfield River. The Survey maps it on the Woronoco quadrangle.

Norwich Bridge within Hampshire County

Then and now

1887 to 1998

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 Norwich Bridge, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Norwich Bridge, surveyed 1887

Compare 1887 against another survey:

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

6 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Norwich Bridge between 2015 and 2020, burning about 1 acres in total. 1 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
Smoking2
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
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
13 June 2017Smoking1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 April 2020Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 March 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
16 March 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
19 October 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 386 shown

Museums hold 386 specimens collected within 10 miles of Norwich Bridge between 1822 and 1975: 246 Animalia, 110 Plantae, 30 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Pealey, A.W. Montgomery; L.M. Massey, Ahles, H.E. 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 Carex bromoides, not of this specimenCarex bromoides Willd.1831Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex vesicaria, not of this specimenCarex vesicaria L.1836Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex vestita, not of this specimenCarex vestita Willd.1836Collector unspecified
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 Puccinia recondita, not of this specimenPuccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm.1885Mason Frank C. Mrs.Huntington

All 386 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 15 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Norwich Bridge: 5 producers, 5 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Mica, Lithium, Feldspar, Silica. 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
Pegmatite QuarryMica, FeldsparProducerFeldspar
Blandford Mica MineMica, FeldsparPast ProducerFeldspar, Mica
Donovan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Donovan Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pegmatite QuarryMica, FeldsparPast Producer
Silica QuarrySilicaProducer
Silica QuarrySilicaPast Producer
Norwich Lithia MineLithiumProducer
Norwich Lithia MineLithiumPast Producer
Norwich Lithia MineLithiumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

Storms nearby

4 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Norwich Bridge in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindNorwich Bridge$20,000Trees at Littleville Dam, Allen Street, and Coit Road were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindNorwich Bridge$1,000In Huntington, trees were down on Mountain View. Report relayed by amateur radio.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindNorwich Bridge$800In Huntington, a tree and wires were down on Bromley Road.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindNorwich Bridge$500In Huntington there was a tree down on Goss Hill Rd at Stage Rd.

Every storm recorded in Hampshire 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
Huntington0.9 miles36
Goss Heights1.0 miles37
Knightville2.4 miles37
Norwich3.3 miles37
Fomer4.0 miles37
Westhampton6.3 miles37
South Worthington6.7 miles36
Southampton7.5 miles43

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 Q122545588The 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 608461. 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.