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Roaring Brook Camp, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Conway town. It lies in ZIP code area 01341. It lies in Norton Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Williamsburg quadrangle.

Roaring Brook Camp within Franklin County

Then and now

1885 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Roaring Brook Camp, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Roaring Brook Camp, surveyed 1885

Compare 1885 against another survey:

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.

Fires nearby

26 since 2016

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Roaring Brook Camp between 2016 and 2020, burning about 36 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning18
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
1 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
31 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMATHEWS RIDGE FIRE
2 May 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 May 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 6,621 shown

Museums hold 6,621 specimens collected within 10 miles of Roaring Brook Camp between 1822 and 1975: 3,227 Animalia, 2,219 Plantae, 1,129 Fungi, 33 Protozoa, 7 Chromista, 6 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A V Osmun, A., A. C. Smith 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Cercospora violae Sacc.Cercospora violae Sacc.1895Ralph E. SmithHothouse, Mass. Agr. College, Amherst
Specimen of Septoria petroselini Desm.Septoria petroselini Desm.1895R. E. SmithHothouse, Mass. Agr. College
Specimen of Bombus perplexus Cresson, 1863Bombus perplexus Cresson, 18631897[Not Stated]Hatch Experiment Station
A photograph of the species Ptilidium pulcherrimum, not of this specimenPtilidium pulcherrimum (Weber) Hampe1822Ebenezer Emmons
A photograph of the species Carex pauciflora, not of this specimenCarex pauciflora Lightf.1825Collector unspecifiedAshfield. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Cinna latifolia, not of this specimenCinna latifolia (Trevir. ex Göpp.) Griseb.1847Russell
A photograph of the species Veratrum viride, not of this specimenVeratrum viride subsp. viride1847not recordedBrunswick and Goshen
A photograph of the species Juncus articulatus, not of this specimenJuncus articulatus L.1860E. TuckermanMill Hollow, near Amherst
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 18021860M. KiefferConnecticut River
unnamed (fossil)1867Othniel C. Marshblack sh, [property of T.M. Stoughton, 1871 Beers County map, previously owned by Dr. Roswell Field], S side of Connecticut River, Horse Race, Montague
A photograph of the species Mormolucoides articulatus, not of this specimenMormolucoides articulatus Hitchcock, 1858 (fossil)1867Othniel C. Marshblack sh, [property of T.M. Stoughton, 1871 Beers County map, previously owned by Dr. Roswell Field], S side of Connecticut River, Horse Race, Montague
A photograph of the species Brasenia peltata, not of this specimenBrasenia peltata Pursh1892not recordedLeverett

All 6,621 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 20 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Roaring Brook Camp: 7 occurrences, 7 prospects, 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Lead, Silver, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Southeast Conway Manganese ProspectManganeseProspect
Whately - Conway Lead VeinsSilver, LeadOccurrenceGalena
Limestone - Marble QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Limestone - Marble QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerMarble
Limestone-Marble QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Limestone-Marble QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Southwest Deerfield Barite OccurrenBarium-BariteOccurrence
Southwest Deerfield Barite Vein OccurrenceBarium-BariteOccurrenceBarite
Southeast of West Whately Galena VeinLead, SilverOccurrenceGalena
Unnamed ProspectLead, SilverOccurrenceGalena

Every working recorded in Franklin 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mill River2.0 miles34
Conway2.6 miles34
Burkville2.9 miles34
South Deerfield3.2 miles42
Whately3.4 miles42
East Whately3.8 miles42
West Deerfield4.1 miles34
Wapping4.4 miles32

Elsewhere

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.

Wikidata item Q122560796The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608645. 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.