Shirkshire, Massachusetts

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.

1890 1990

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.

• 1890 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1937 USGS Shelburne Falls quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Shelburne Falls quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Shelburne Falls quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Shelburne Falls quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Brattleboro quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Shelburne Falls quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS Shelburne Falls quadrangle1:25000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Shelburne Falls quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Shelburne Falls quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Shelburne Falls quadrangle1:25000
• 1978 USGS Shelburne Falls quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1990 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1990 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Shirkshire between 2002 and 2020, burning about 52 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Baptist Corner
• Buckland
• Buckland Four Corners
• Shelburne Falls
• East Charlemont
• Shattuckville

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Museums hold 2,000 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shirkshire between 1822 and 1975: 1,012 Plantae, 596 Fungi, 362 Animalia, 24 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A V Osmun, A. F. Beals, 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
	Cardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W.Wood	1900	F. F. Forbes
	Ptilidium pulcherrimum (Weber) Hampe	1822	Ebenezer Emmons
	Carex pauciflora Lightf.	1825	Collector unspecified	Ashfield. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
	Cinna latifolia (Trevir. ex Göpp.) Griseb.	1847	Russell
	Veratrum viride subsp. viride	1847	not recorded	Brunswick and Goshen
	unnamed (fossil)	1867	Othniel C. Marsh	black sh, [property of T.M. Stoughton, 1871 Beers County map, previously owned by Dr. Roswell Field], S side of Connecticut River, Horse Race, Montague
	Mormolucoides articulatus Hitchcock, 1858 (fossil)	1867	Othniel C. Marsh	black sh, [property of T.M. Stoughton, 1871 Beers County map, previously owned by Dr. Roswell Field], S side of Connecticut River, Horse Race, Montague
	Carex prasina Wahlenb.	1892	J. R. Churchill	Montague
	Carex torta Boott	1892	J. R. Churchill	Montague
	Spiranthes ochroleuca (Rydb.) Rydb.	1894	Swinerton, J.R.	Greenfield
	Asplenium ruta-muraria L.	1895	A. F. Beals	Sugar loaf Mountain, (north), South Deerfield
	Juglans cinerea L.	1895	C. W. Trow	Buckland.

All 2,000 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Shirkshire: 4 producers, 4 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Limestone, General, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Franklin County

The National Weather Service names Shirkshire in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Franklin County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608662. 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.