Pratt Corner, 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

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
• 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1942 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:24000
• 1950 USGS Shutesbury 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
• 1964 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:25000
• 1964 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:24000
• 1964 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:25000
• 1964 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:25000
• 1990 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Pratt Corner between 2002 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. 4 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 Leverett
• Leverett Station
• Baconville
• Leverett
• Shutesbury
• Sunderland

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Museums hold 9,333 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pratt Corner between 1781 and 1975: 3,988 Animalia, 3,042 Plantae, 2,089 Fungi, 127 Chromista, 75 Protozoa, 12 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A V Osmun, A. Allen, A. B. Seymour 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
	Septoria petroselini Desm.	1895	R. E. Smith	Hothouse, Mass. Agr. College
	Bombus bimaculatus Cresson, 1863	1899	[Not Stated]	Hatch Experiment Station
	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
	Ptilidium pulcherrimum (Weber) Hampe	1822	Ebenezer Emmons
	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

All 9,333 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Pratt Corner: 9 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Copper, Brick Clay. 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 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 609208. 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.