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

Richmond, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Richmond town. It lies in ZIP code area 01254. It stands on Cone Hill. The Survey maps it on the Stockbridge quadrangle.

Richmond within Berkshire County

Then and now

1888 to 1997

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.

Topographic sheet of Richmond, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Richmond, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

42 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Peirson House, Richmond, Berkshire County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

71 since 1995

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Richmond between 1995 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Debris and open burning	19
Recreation and ceremony	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	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
28 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 September 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
18 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 August 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 July 2001	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
25 July 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 997 shown

Museums hold 997 specimens collected within 10 miles of Richmond between 1833 and 1975: 463 Plantae, 283 Fungi, 245 Animalia, 2 Chromista, 2 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Evans, A. Brown, A. F. Beale 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
Potamogeton pusillus subsp. tenuissimus (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) K.Richt.	1900	P. B. Weatherbee
Betula alleghaniensis Britton	1833	Collector unknown
Betula pumila L.	1833	Collector unspecified
Carex utriculata Boott	1833	W. L. Worcester
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1833	Collector unknown
Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman	1833	Collector unknown
Parnassia caroliniana Michx.	1834	not recorded
Persicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre	1835	C. A. Shurtleff	Pittsfield
Bromus latiglumis (Shear) Hitchc.	1857	W. H. Leggett
Solidago patula Muhl. ex Willd.	1858	Brewer; Chickering
Bartramia pomiformis Hedw.	1895	not recorded
Poa trivialis L.	1898	A. K. Harrison	Lebanon Springs

All 997 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 53 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Richmond: 34 past producers, 13 producers, 5 occurrences, 1 prospect. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Limestone, General. 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
Canaan Lead Silver Mines	Lead, Silver, Zinc	Producer	Replacement Vein
Cheever Mines	Iron, Manganese	Producer	Goethite, Limonite
Cheever Mines	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer
Cone Limestone Mine	Iron, Magnesite, Zinc	Past Producer	1827
No 6 Quarry & Plnt Lane & Son	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Canaan Lead Silver Mines	Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Canaan Pb-Ag Mines	Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer	Vein
Gaston Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
John S Lane and Son Inc	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Nolan Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

3 since 1993

The National Weather Service names Richmond in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 2002: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1997	Tornado (F1)	Richmond	$50,000	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$10,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	-	Emergency Management, state police and Skywarn observers reported trees and wires downed in many parts of Berkshire County. Some roads were blocked in Stockbridge. About 1,500 customers were without power.

Every storm recorded in Berkshire 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
Richmond Furnace	1.1 miles	43
Carey Corner	1.1 miles	42
West Stockbridge	1.9 miles	42
Crane Lake Camp	2.5 miles	43
Stevens Corner	2.7 miles	44
State Line	2.8 miles	43
Camp Russell	3.6 miles	44
Tanglewood	3.6 miles	42

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607668. 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.