Otis, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1888 1997

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.

• 1888 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1899 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1907 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1946 USGS Otis quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Otis quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Otis quadrangle1:31680
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Otis quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Otis quadrangle1:24000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Otis quadrangle1:25000
• 1973 USGS Otis quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Otis quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Otis quadrangle1:25000
• 1997 USGS Otis quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Otis between 2015 and 2019, burning about 7 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.

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:

• Otis Wood Lanes
• North Otis
• Algerie Four Corners
• Cold Spring
• East Otis
• Indian Lake Estates

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Museums hold 1,979 specimens collected within 10 miles of Otis between 1872 and 1975: 1,157 Animalia, 685 Plantae, 134 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Treat, A. K. Harrison, A. M. Vail 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
	Lygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.	1872	Miller, E.S.	East Hampton
	Botrychium lanceolatum (S.G.Gmel.) Ångstr.	1873	S. M. Piper
	Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.	1874	Frederick N. Pease
	Gentianella quinquefolia subsp. quinquefolia	1875	not recorded
	Leucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ångstr.	1877	H. J. Biddlecome	Chester
	Botrychium angustisegmentum (Pease & A.H.Moore) Fernald	1879	not recorded
	Botrychium dissectum Spreng.	1879	not recorded
	Euphorbia polygonifolia L.	1879	not recorded
	Chordeiles minor minor (J.R.Forster, 1771)	1883	Collector(s): H. C. Johnson	near New Marlboro
	Baeomyces roseus Pers.	1895	George T. Moore	Chestnut Hill
	Acer saccharum Marshall	1897	Vail, A.M.	Tyringham
	Acer spicatum Lam.	1897	Vail, A.M.	Vicinity of Tyringham

All 1,979 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Otis: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite. 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 Berkshire County

The National Weather Service names Otis in 37 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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 Berkshire County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608079. 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.