Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Red Bridge, Massachusetts

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wilbraham town. It lies in ZIP code area 01095. It stands on Broad Brook. The Survey maps it on the Ludlow quadrangle.

Red Bridge within Hampden County

Then and now

1887 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Red Bridge, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Red Bridge, surveyed 1887

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

131 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Red Bridge between 2015 and 2020, burning about 107 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45
Recreation and ceremony	14
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	6
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
26 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
19 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
12 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,269 shown

Museums hold 1,269 specimens collected within 10 miles of Red Bridge between 1845 and 1975: 567 Fungi, 380 Plantae, 300 Animalia, 15 Chromista, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. E. Kirk, A. M. Rogers; D. P. Rogers 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Lygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.	1895	Deane, Walter	East Longmeadow;;;;
Polygonum pensylvanicum L.	1897	Morris,E.L. s.n. [1897-08]	[label: Flora of North America - Herbarium of E.L. Morris] Monson. Massachussets. Rubbish heaps
Galeopsis tetrahit L.	1845	not recorded
Krigia virginica (L.) Willd.	1857	not recorded
Carex cephalophora Muhl. ex Willd.	1858	J. Blake
Carex platyphylla J.Carey	1858	J. Blake	Mt. Holyoke
Castilleja coccinea (L.) Spreng.	1858	A. P. Chute
Geranium robertianum L.	1858	not recorded	Mt. Holyoke
Ranunculus flabellaris Raf.	1858	A. P. Chute
Trifolium agrarium L.	1858	not recorded
Viola pubescens Aiton	1858	not recorded	Mt. Holyoke
Acer spicatum Lam.	1891	not recorded

All 1,269 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Red Bridge: 5 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Banas S & G Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Banas Sand and Gravel Co Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Bruschi Brothers	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Cheniers Gravel Bank	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Cheniers Gravel Bank	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lyons Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Machados Pit & Bruschi Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
North Wilbraham Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
North Wilbraham Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Palmer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hampden 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Butlerville	1.6 miles	37
East Wilbraham	1.6 miles	37
North Wilbraham	1.7 miles	37
Three Rivers	2.7 miles	35
Ludlow Center	2.8 miles	37
Four Corners	3.4 miles	35
Palmer Green Estates	3.5 miles	35
Ludlow	3.6 miles	37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 617784. 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.