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Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Shelburne town. It lies in ZIP code area 01370. It stands on West Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Shelburne Falls quadrangle. 1,719 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 404 feet above sea level.

Shelburne Falls within Franklin County

Population over time

2 figures

Shelburne Falls fell from 1,731 to 1,719 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,731
20201,719-12 (-1%)

Then and now

1890 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shelburne Falls, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Shelburne Falls, surveyed 1890

Topographic sheets covering this place

34 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

1 photograph,

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.

Lamsom-Goodnow Manufacturing Company, 45 Conway Street, Shelburne Falls, Franklin County, MA
Lamsom-Goodnow Manufacturing Company, 45 Conway Street, Shelburne Falls, Franklin County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

28 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Shelburne Falls between 2002 and 2020, burning about 29 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 burning22
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
8 May 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 April 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 April 2003Debris and open burning5.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 April 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,509 shown

Museums hold 1,509 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shelburne Falls between 1822 and 1975: 831 Plantae, 573 Fungi, 79 Animalia, 24 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. K. Harrison, A. R. Hodgdon; H. Bigelow;R. Livingstone, A. S. Goodale 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 Cardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W.WoodCardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W.Wood1900F. F. Forbes
A photograph of the species Ptilidium pulcherrimum, not of this specimenPtilidium pulcherrimum (Weber) Hampe1822Ebenezer Emmons
A photograph of the species Carex pauciflora, not of this specimenCarex pauciflora Lightf.1825Collector unspecifiedAshfield. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Cinna latifolia, not of this specimenCinna latifolia (Trevir. ex Göpp.) Griseb.1847Russell
A photograph of the species Panicum virgatum, not of this specimenPanicum virgatum L.1867R. G. Poland
A photograph of the species Phegopteris hexagonoptera, not of this specimenPhegopteris hexagonoptera (Michx.) Fée1873H. G. Jesup
A photograph of the species Alnus viridis, not of this specimenAlnus viridis (Chaix) DC.1874E. F. BishopDeerfield River
A photograph of the species Diphasiastrum tristachyum, not of this specimenDiphasiastrum tristachyum (Pursh) Holub1874Jesup, H.G.Conway
A photograph of the species Equisetum variegatum, not of this specimenEquisetum variegatum Schleich. ex F.Weber & D.Mohr1874H. G. JesupSands of Deerfield River, Conway, Mass.
A photograph of the species Lactuca hirsuta, not of this specimenLactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt.1874H. G. Jesup
A photograph of the species Spiranthes ochroleuca, not of this specimenSpiranthes ochroleuca (Rydb.) Rydb.1894Swinerton, J.R.Greenfield
A photograph of the species Juglans cinerea, not of this specimenJuglans cinerea L.1895C. W. TrowBuckland.

All 1,509 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Shelburne Falls: 4 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Iron, Sulfur, Iron, Sulfur. 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
Gossan - Not ProspectedIron, SulfurOccurrence
Gossan In East Oxbow BrookIron, SulfurOccurrence
Gossan In East Oxbow Brook ProspectIron, SulfurOccurrence
Gossan OccurrenceIron, SulfurOccurrence
Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Luther Smith Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
Luther Smith Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms nearby

8 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Shelburne Falls in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 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 2014Thunderstorm WindShelburne Falls$10,000Trees and wires on Taylor Road and Guy Manners Road were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindShelburne Falls$8,000Trees were downed in Shelburne Falls on Route 2 at State Road, and in Northampton on the Spring Street extension.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindShelburne Falls$5,000A tree and wires on Monroe Avenue were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindShelburne Falls$800In Shelburne Falls, a tree was down on wires on Water Street.
September 2015FloodShelburne Falls-March Road was flooded and impassable on the Buckland/Shelburne Falls line.
March 1999Heavy RainShelburne Falls-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindShelburne Falls-no account filed
May 1994HailShelburne Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
The Patten2.2 miles34
Shattuckville2.4 miles36
Shelburne2.9 miles34
Buckland2.9 miles32
East Charlemont3.0 miles32
Shirkshire3.7 miles34
Baptist Corner3.8 miles32
Griswoldville3.8 miles36

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.

Wikipedia article on Shelburne FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7493324The 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 608657. 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.