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Rockdale Mills, Massachusetts

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in West Stockbridge town. It lies in ZIP code area 01236. It stands on Dunbar Hill. The Survey maps it on the State Line quadrangle.

Rockdale Mills 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 Rockdale Mills, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Rockdale Mills, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

43 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

29 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Rockdale Mills between 2002 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
13 September 2016Other causesunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 August 2017Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
24 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 July 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 July 2019Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 June 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 June 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew York Forest RangersHARVEY MOUNTAIN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,865 shown

Museums hold 1,865 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rockdale Mills between 1833 and 1975: 860 Plantae, 759 Animalia, 239 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Evans, A. Brown, A. E. Treat 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 Potamogeton pusillus subsp. tenuissimus (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) K.Richt.Potamogeton pusillus subsp. tenuissimus (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) K.Richt.1900P. B. Weatherbee
A photograph of the species Betula alleghaniensis, not of this specimenBetula alleghaniensis Britton1833Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Betula pumila, not of this specimenBetula pumila L.1833Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Carex utriculata, not of this specimenCarex utriculata Boott1833W. L. Worcester
A photograph of the species Dennstaedtia punctilobula, not of this specimenDennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore1833Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Gymnocarpium dryopteris, not of this specimenGymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman1833Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Parnassia caroliniana, not of this specimenParnassia caroliniana Michx.1834not recorded
A photograph of the species Bromus latiglumis, not of this specimenBromus latiglumis (Shear) Hitchc.1857W. H. Leggett
A photograph of the species Cornus rugosa, not of this specimenCornus rugosa Lam.1859W. H. Leggett
A photograph of the species Percopsis omiscomaycus, not of this specimenPercopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)1860Britton McCabeGreen R. (trib. of Housatonic R.), 1 mi. S of Great Barrington on Rt. 23
A photograph of the species Bartramia pomiformis, not of this specimenBartramia pomiformis Hedw.1895not recorded
A photograph of the species Acer saccharum, not of this specimenAcer saccharum Marshall1897Vail, A.M.Tyringham

All 1,865 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 35 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Rockdale Mills: 23 past producers, 9 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Magnesite, Zinc. 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
Cone Limestone MineIron, Magnesite, ZincPast Producer1827
No 6 Quarry & Plnt Lane & SonStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
John S Lane and Son IncLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Toby Lime PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Beacco PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Donovan Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gaston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
J Donovan and SonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mercer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Nat Beacco and SonsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
West Stockbridge Center1.7 miles43
Glendale1.8 miles42
Williamsville1.8 miles43
Camp Kingsmont2.1 miles43
Larrywaug2.3 miles42
Housatonic2.6 miles42
Interlaken2.9 miles42
Stockbridge3.0 miles42

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 Q122538966The 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 617791. 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.