Petersham, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1887 1988

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 Barre quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Barre quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Barre quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Barre quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Barre quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Barre quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Barre quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Barre quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Barre quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1942 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1946 USGS Petersham quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Petersham quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Petersham quadrangle1:31680
• 1954 USGS Petersham quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Petersham quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Petersham quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Petersham quadrangle1:25000
• 1969 USGS Petersham quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Petersham quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Barre quadrangle1:25000
• 1988 USGS Barre quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Petersham between 2015 and 2020, burning about 12 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:

• Bassets Corner
• Dana Center
• Nichewaug
• Williamsville
• Ashburnham
• Auburn

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Museums hold 1,716 specimens collected within 10 miles of Petersham between 1839 and 1975: 943 Animalia, 459 Fungi, 290 Plantae, 15 Unrecorded, 9 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. V. Schott, A. Melander, A. Melander & A. Melander 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
	Bartramia pomiformis Hedw.	1839	unknown	Barre
	Carex gracillima Schwein.	1839	M. S. Bebb	Barre
	Carex intumescens Rudge	1839	M. S. Bebb	Barre
	Carex lacustris Willd.	1839	M. S. Bebb	Barre
	Carex stipata Muhl. ex Willd.	1839	M. S. Bebb	Barre
	Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop.	1839	M. S. Bebb	Barre
	Cypripedium acaule Aiton	1839	M. S. Bebb	Barre
	Calyptospora goeppertiana J.G.Kühn	1895	not recorded	US, Massachusetts, Barre
	Vaccinium corymbosum L.	1895	not recorded	US, Massachusetts, Barre
	Polyporus cinnabarinus (Jacq.) Fr.	1927	Spaulding P.	Petersham
	unnamed	1928	Spaulding P.; Hansbrough J. R.	Petersham
	Botrytis P.Micheli, 1729	1928	Perley Spaulding	Petersham

All 1,716 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Petersham: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 Worcester County

The National Weather Service names Petersham in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 Worcester 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 609690. 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.