Pelham, Massachusetts

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

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

• Pelham Town Hall Historic Districtlisted 1971

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

• Charcoal Kilns, Valley Road, Pelhamfederal building survey, 4 photographs

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 Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
• 1890 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1942 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:31680, 4 printings
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1975 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1990 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Pelham between 2004 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 2 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:

• Knights Corner
• Meads Corner
• Packardville
• West Pelham
• Amherst
• Amherst Center

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 8,229 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pelham between 1781 and 1975: 3,758 Animalia, 2,211 Plantae, 2,048 Fungi, 126 Chromista, 75 Protozoa, 11 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Allen, A. B. Seymour, A. Buckman 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
	Cercospora violae Sacc.	1895	Ralph E. Smith	Hothouse, Mass. Agr. College, Amherst
	Actias luna Linnaeus, 1758	1896	not recorded
	Plathemis lydia (Drury, 1773)	1896	not recorded
	Carex argyrantha Tuck. ex Dewey	1781	H. G. Jesup	Amherst in Hampshire Co., and Leverett in Franklin Co., Massachusetts. [Inferred counties from precise loc.]
	Carex foenea Willd.	1781	H. G. Jesup	And Leverett
	Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle	1810	J.E. Humphrey
	Ranunculus ambigens S.Watson	1831	S. Shurtleff
	Dactylis glomerata L.	1839	S J Ewer
	Solidago arguta Aiton	1841	Collector(s): Henry Holmes Babcock, Henry Griswold Jesup	Amherst
	Phlebiella vaga (Fr.) P.Karst.	1845	Illegible collector name
	Elodea nuttallii (Planch.) H.St.John	1847	H. G. Jesup
	Biatora sanguineoatra (Wulfen) Tuck.	1848	Tuckerman Edward

All 8,229 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pelham: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Asbestos, Emery, Iron. 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 Hampshire County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pelham in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 Hampshire 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 609200. 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.