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

Shutesbury, Massachusetts

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Shutesbury town. It lies in ZIP code area 01072. It stands on Camel Brook. The Survey maps it on the Shutesbury quadrangle.

Shutesbury within Franklin County

Then and now

1887 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shutesbury, surveyed 1990

Topographic sheet of Shutesbury, surveyed 1887

Compare 1887 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

35 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

11 since 2016

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Shutesbury between 2016 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. 1 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	8
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
23 July 2016	Natural	5.3 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
25 June 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 May 2020	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 April 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 April 2019	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
15 April 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 April 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 8,365 shown

Museums hold 8,365 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shutesbury between 1781 and 1975: 4,016 Animalia, 2,077 Plantae, 2,059 Fungi, 126 Chromista, 75 Protozoa, 12 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Allen, A. B. Seymour, A. Buckman 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
Cercospora violae Sacc.	1895	Ralph E. Smith	Hothouse, Mass. Agr. College, Amherst
Septoria petroselini Desm.	1895	R. E. Smith	Hothouse, Mass. Agr. College
Bombus bimaculatus Cresson, 1863	1899	[Not Stated]	Hatch Experiment Station
Carex argyrantha Tuck. ex Dewey	1781	H. G. Jesup	Amherst in Hampshire Co., and Leverett in Franklin Co., Massachusetts. [Inferred counties from precise loc.]
Carex foenea Willd.	1781	H. G. Jesup	And Leverett
Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle	1810	J.E. Humphrey
Ranunculus ambigens S.Watson	1831	S. Shurtleff
Dactylis glomerata L.	1839	S J Ewer
Solidago arguta Aiton	1841	Collector(s): Henry Holmes Babcock, Henry Griswold Jesup	Amherst
Phlebiella vaga (Fr.) P.Karst.	1845	Illegible collector name
Elodea nuttallii (Planch.) H.St.John	1847	H. G. Jesup
Biatora sanguineoatra (Wulfen) Tuck.	1848	Tuckerman Edward

All 8,365 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 Shutesbury: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Copper, Lead, Zinc. 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
	Leverett Prospects	Barium-Barite, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms nearby

13 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Shutesbury in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Shutesbury	$25,000	Numerous trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds, resulting in multiple power outages.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Shutesbury	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds brought down large limbs on Wendell Road in Shutesbury, and wires down on Silver Lane.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Shutesbury	$15,000	Trees and wires on Route 202 were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Shutesbury	$10,000	Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds in Leverett and Shutesbury.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Shutesbury	$6,000	Trees and wires on Cooleyville Road were downed by thunderstorm winds. One tree was downed onto a car.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Shutesbury	$5,000	A tree on West Pelham Road was downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Shutesbury	$3,000	Large limbs were downed onto wires on West Pelham Road.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Shutesbury	$2,000	At 610 PM EST, a tree and wires were reported down in front of the Fire Station in Shutesbury.
July 2021	Hail	Shutesbury	-	In Shutesbury, dime sized hail was reported.
August 2007	Hail	Shutesbury	-	Nickel size hail.
August 2011	Hail	Shutesbury	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Shutesbury	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Shutesbury	-	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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cooleyville	2.0 miles	32
Dudleyville	2.8 miles	35
Baconville	2.9 miles	35
Locks Village	3.3 miles	32
North Prescott	3.5 miles	32
East Leverett	3.9 miles	35
Moores Corner	4.1 miles	35
Pratt Corner	4.4 miles	35

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609222. 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.