Ringville, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 111 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 1997

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.

• 1886 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1896 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1897 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Chester quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Chester quadrangle1:31680
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Chester quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Chester quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Chester quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Chester quadrangle1:25000
• 1975 USGS Chester quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Chester quadrangle1:25000
• 1987 USGS Chester quadrangle1:25000
• 1997 USGS Chester quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Ringville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 27 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:

• South Worthington
• West Chesterfield
• Chesterfield
• Swift River
• Worthington Center
• Cummington

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Museums hold 556 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ringville between 1822 and 1975: 297 Animalia, 170 Plantae, 87 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A., A. Gurney, A. K. Harrison 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
	Buellia disciformis (Fr.) Mudd	1900	George P. Clinton	Hammond Pond
	Graphis scripta (L.) Ach.	1900	George P. Clinton	Hammond Pond
	Porella platyphylloidea (Schwein.) Lindb.	1822	Emmons	Norwich
	Veratrum viride subsp. viride	1847	not recorded	Brunswick and Goshen
	Dichanthelium depauperatum (Muhl.) Gould	1868	Joseph Blake	Westhampton
	Halenia deflexa (Sm.) Griseb.	1868	Collector(s): Henry Griswold Jesup	Cummington
	Lygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.	1872	Miller, E.S.	East Hampton
	Botrychium matricariifolium (Döll) A.Braun ex Koch	1873	H. G. Jesup
	Botrychium virginianum subsp. typicum R.T.Clausen	1873	Jesup, H.G.	Goshen.
	Phegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt	1873	H. G. Jesup
	Botrychium lanceolatum (S.G.Gmel.) Ångstr.	1874	H. G. Jesup
	Leucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ångstr.	1877	H. J. Biddlecome	Chester

All 556 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Ringville: 6 past producers, 5 occurrences, 5 producers, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Lithium, Talc-Soapstone, Stone, Emery. 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

The National Weather Service names Ringville in 1 storm report between 2020 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 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.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608352. 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.