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

Sandisfield, Massachusetts

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Sandisfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 01255. It stands on Buck Hill. The Survey maps it on the South Sandisfield quadrangle.

Sandisfield 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 Sandisfield, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Sandisfield, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

38 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

13 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Sandisfield between 2015 and 2019, burning about 24 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 burning6
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 July 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 May 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 April 2015Debris and open burning1.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
26 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,468 shown

Museums hold 1,468 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sandisfield between 1873 and 1975: 686 Animalia, 601 Plantae, 178 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & A. C. Seymour, 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
A photograph of the species Botrychium lanceolatum, not of this specimenBotrychium lanceolatum (S.G.Gmel.) Ångstr.1873S. M. Piper
A photograph of the species Gentianella quinquefolia, not of this specimenGentianella quinquefolia subsp. quinquefolia1875not recorded
A photograph of the species Euphorbia polygonifolia, not of this specimenEuphorbia polygonifolia L.1879not recorded
A photograph of the species Balansia hypoxylon, not of this specimenBalansia hypoxylon (Peck) G.F.Atk.1882A. B. Seymour
A photograph of the species Bryum caespiticium, not of this specimenBryum caespiticium Hedw.1883unknownGranville
A photograph of the species Ceratodon purpureus, not of this specimenCeratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid.1883unknownGranville
A photograph of the species Chordeiles minor, not of this specimenChordeiles minor minor (J.R.Forster, 1771)1883Collector(s): H. C. Johnsonnear New Marlboro
A photograph of the species Cladonia P.Browne, not of this specimenCladonia P.Browne, 17561883A. B. SeymourGranville
A photograph of the species Cladonia cristatella, not of this specimenCladonia cristatella Tuck.1883A. B. SeymourGranville
Baeomyces roseus Pers.1895George T. MooreChestnut Hill
A photograph of the species Acer saccharum, not of this specimenAcer saccharum Marshall1897Vail, A.M.Tyringham
A photograph of the species Acer spicatum, not of this specimenAcer spicatum Lam.1897Vail, A.M.Vicinity of Tyringham

All 1,468 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sandisfield: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Nickel, Iron. 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
Hotchkiss MineNickel, IronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

7 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Sandisfield in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Thunderstorm WindSandisfield-Several trees were downed in Sandisfield.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindSandisfield-A tree was downed.
May 2018HailSouth Sandisfield-Quarter sized hail was reported in South Sandisfield during a thunderstorm.
June 2009Flash FloodSandisfield-Route 57 in Sandisfield was closed due to flash flooding from intense rainfall.
July 1995HailSandisfield-Severe thunderstorms brought large hail and very heavy rain. Nickel to golf ball-size hail lasted almost 20 minutes in Pittsfield and broke car windshields. Urban street flooding in Pittsfield reached a depth of two to three feet in city streets as storm drains backed up. The flooding lasted up to three hours. In Sandisfield, dime to quarter-size hail fell for five minutes.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindSandisfield-A few trees were reported blown down and power outages occurred.
July 1994HailSandisfield-no account filed

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Montville1.0 miles38
Konkapot2.6 miles38
West New Boston2.6 miles39
South Sandisfield3.2 miles38
New Boston3.8 miles39
Roosterville4.4 miles39
Hephzibah Heights4.5 miles38
New Marlborough4.6 miles38

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607688. 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.