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.
Then and now
1886 to 1998The 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 sheets covering this place
38 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
- 1891 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Taconic quadrangle1:125000
- 1900 USGS Taconic quadrangle1:125000
- 1900 USGS Taconic quadrangle1:125000
- 1900 USGS Taconic quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Windsor quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Windsor quadrangle1:24000
- 1947 USGS Windsor quadrangle1:31680
- 1947 USGS Windsor quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Windsor quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Windsor quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Windsor quadrangle1:25000
- 1973 USGS Windsor quadrangle1:24000
- 1975 USGS Windsor quadrangle1:25000
- 1986 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Cheshire quadrangle1:25000
- 1988 USGS Cheshire quadrangle1:25000
- 1989 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
- 1998 USGS Cheshire quadrangle1:25000
Fires nearby
16 since 2006The 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 use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 2 August 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 28 July 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 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 |
| 22 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | 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 |
| 18 April 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 626 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Lycopodium annotinum var. pungens (Desv.) La Pylaie ex Desv. | 1898 | Kofoid, C.A. | North Adams. |
![]() | 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 | |
![]() | Parnassia glauca Raf. | 1891 | T. O. Fuller | Mount Greylock. |
![]() | Amelanchier bartramiana (Tausch) M.Roem. | 1892 | Lloyd, F.E. | summit of Mt. Greylock, nr Williamstown, New Ashford |
![]() | Crataegus crus-galli L. | 1892 | Lloyd, F.E. | North Adams |
![]() | Booneacris glacialis glacialis (Scudder, 1862) | 1894 | A.P. Morse | |
![]() | Puccinia grossulariae Lagerh. | 1898 | Churchill | Adams |
![]() | Thymus serpyllum L. | 1898 | J. R. Churchill |
All 626 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
10 within 5 milesThe 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lonzo Reeds Prospect | Copper, Nickel | Occurrence | ||
| New England Lime Company Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Pfizer Inc | Calcium | Past Producer | Calcite | |
| Adams Quarry & Plant Pfizer Inc | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| New England Lime Company Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Talc Quarry | Talc-Soapstone | Occurrence | Metamorphic | |
| Talc Quarry | Talc-Soapstone | Past Producer | ||
| Adams Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Adams Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Curran Highway Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Egypt | 2.0 miles | 38 | |
| Brier | 2.8 miles | 34 | |
| Savoy | 2.9 miles | 38 | |
| Bowens Corners | 3.5 miles | 38 | |
| East Renfrew | 3.8 miles | 39 | |
| Drury | 3.9 miles | 34 | |
| Adams | 4.1 miles | 38 | |
| Renfrew | 4.3 miles | 39 |
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 Q122562403 | The 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.

















































