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

Savoy, Massachusetts

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Savoy town. It lies in ZIP code area 01256. It stands on Center Brook. The Survey maps it on the Windsor quadrangle.

Savoy within Berkshire County

Then and now

1886 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Savoy, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet of Savoy, surveyed 1886

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.

Photographs

8 photographs, 1941

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.

New England school teachers on a picnic in Savoy Mountain State Park, Massachusetts
Collier, John, Jr, 1941. Library of Congress

Lake opened to picnickers by the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) in the Savoy Mountain State Park, Massachusetts
Collier, John, Jr, 1941. Library of Congress

Picnic park created by CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). Savoy Mountain State Park, Massachusetts
Collier, John, Jr, 1941. Library of Congress

Lake in Savoy Mountain State Park created by CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). Savoy Mountain State Park, Massachusetts
Collier, John, Jr, 1941. Library of Congress

Fires nearby

5 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Savoy between 2015 and 2018, burning about 5 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 burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
25 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
12 May 2016	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
16 April 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
16 April 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 618 shown

Museums hold 618 specimens collected within 10 miles of Savoy between 1855 and 1975: 256 Plantae, 178 Fungi, 173 Animalia, 7 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A K Harrison, A Schwartz, 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Coptis trifolia (L.) Salisb.	1855	Smer	Williamstown Map - Mt. Greylock
Carex aestivalis M.A.Curtis ex A.Gray	1865	Boott, M.	Saddle Mountain, Williamstown [Mount Greylock]
Carex novae-angliae Schwein.	1865	W. Boott	Saddle Ball Mountain
Homalia jamesii Schimp.	1867	unknown	Waconah Falls State Park
Dichelyma capillaceum (Dicks.) Myrin	1875	N. Coleman
Amelanchier bartramiana (Tausch) M.Roem.	1892	Lloyd, F.E.	summit of Mt. Greylock, nr Williamstown, New Ashford
Booneacris glacialis glacialis (Scudder, 1862)	1894	A.P. Morse
Melanoplus borealis borealis (Fieber, 1853)	1894	not recorded
Puccinia grossulariae Lagerh.	1898	Churchill	Adams
Thymus serpyllum L.	1898	J. R. Churchill
Polytrichum urnigerum Hedw.	1899	Elizabeth G. Britton	Mount Greylock
Thuidium delicatulum (Hedw.) Schimp.	1899	A. M. Smith	Mount Greylock

All 618 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 Savoy: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Nickel. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Lonzo Reeds Prospect	Copper, Nickel	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

7 since 1995

The National Weather Service names Savoy in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Savoy	$18,000	no account filed
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Savoy	-	A large tree was downed.
August 2008	Flash Flood	Savoy	-	Flash flooding resulted in Route 8A, Windsor Road, washing out near Savoy.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Savoy	-	Large trees were reported down in Savoy due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2007	Hail	Savoy	-	Nickel size hail was reported in Savoy.
March 2020	Hail	Savoy	-	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Savoy	-	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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Brier	2.4 miles	34
Savoy Center	2.9 miles	38
Little Egypt	3.9 miles	38
Windsor	4.1 miles	38
Bowens Corners	5.4 miles	38
Arnoldville	5.8 miles	40
Drury	6.1 miles	34
Adams	6.2 miles	38

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607694. 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.