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

Savoy Center, 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 Borden Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Windsor quadrangle.

Savoy Center 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 Center, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Savoy Center, 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.

Fires nearby

16 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Savoy Center between 2006 and 2019, burning about 11 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
25 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
2 August 2017Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 July 2018Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
12 May 2016Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
18 April 2006Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 626 shown

Museums hold 626 specimens collected within 10 miles of Savoy Center between 1855 and 1975: 288 Plantae, 171 Animalia, 157 Fungi, 6 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Lycopodium annotinum var. pungens (Desv.) La Pylaie ex Desv.Lycopodium annotinum var. pungens (Desv.) La Pylaie ex Desv.1898Kofoid, C.A.North Adams.
A photograph of the species Coptis trifolia, not of this specimenCoptis trifolia (L.) Salisb.1855SmerWilliamstown Map - Mt. Greylock
A photograph of the species Carex aestivalis, not of this specimenCarex aestivalis M.A.Curtis ex A.Gray1865Boott, M.Saddle Mountain, Williamstown [Mount Greylock]
A photograph of the species Carex novae-angliae, not of this specimenCarex novae-angliae Schwein.1865W. BoottSaddle Ball Mountain
A photograph of the species Homalia jamesii, not of this specimenHomalia jamesii Schimp.1867unknownWaconah Falls State Park
A photograph of the species Dichelyma capillaceum, not of this specimenDichelyma capillaceum (Dicks.) Myrin1875N. Coleman
A photograph of the species Parnassia glauca, not of this specimenParnassia glauca Raf.1891T. O. FullerMount Greylock.
A photograph of the species Amelanchier bartramiana, not of this specimenAmelanchier bartramiana (Tausch) M.Roem.1892Lloyd, F.E.summit of Mt. Greylock, nr Williamstown, New Ashford
A photograph of the species Crataegus crus-galli, not of this specimenCrataegus crus-galli L.1892Lloyd, F.E.North Adams
A photograph of the species Booneacris glacialis, not of this specimenBooneacris glacialis glacialis (Scudder, 1862)1894A.P. Morse
A photograph of the species Puccinia grossulariae, not of this specimenPuccinia grossulariae Lagerh.1898ChurchillAdams
A photograph of the species Thymus serpyllum, not of this specimenThymus serpyllum L.1898J. R. Churchill

All 626 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Savoy Center: 3 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Talc-Soapstone, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lonzo Reeds ProspectCopper, NickelOccurrence
New England Lime Company QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerSedimentary
Pfizer IncCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
Adams Quarry & Plant Pfizer IncStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
New England Lime Company QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Talc QuarryTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceMetamorphic
Talc QuarryTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Adams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Adams PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Curran Highway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

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
Little Egypt2.0 miles38
Brier2.8 miles34
Savoy2.9 miles38
Bowens Corners3.5 miles38
East Renfrew3.8 miles39
Drury3.9 miles34
Adams4.1 miles38
Renfrew4.3 miles39

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 Q122562403The 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 607695. 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.