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

Skyland, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Tolland town. It lies in ZIP code area 01034. It stands on Burgess Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Tolland Center quadrangle.

Skyland within Hampden County

Then and now

1888 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Skyland, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Skyland, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

39 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

15 since 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Skyland between 2010 and 2017, burning about 16 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
12 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreConnecticut Division of Forestrynot named
28 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConnecticut Division of ForestryCOLEBROOK
27 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConnecticut Division of Forestrynot named
17 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConnecticut Division of ForestryCOLEBROOK
8 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConnecticut Division of Forestrynot named
30 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 April 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConnecticut Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,691 shown

Museums hold 1,691 specimens collected within 10 miles of Skyland between 1831 and 1974: 1,100 Fungi, 504 Plantae, 42 Animalia, 32 Chromista, 13 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by "WJG", A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & A. C. Seymour 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 FungiFungi1890Seymour, Arthur BlissGranville
Specimen of Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1890Arthur B. SeymourGranville
Specimen of Baeomyces roseus Pers.Baeomyces roseus Pers.1895George T. MooreChestnut Hill
A photograph of the species Panax quinquefolius, not of this specimenPanax quinquefolius L.1831Collector unspecifiedBlandford
A photograph of the species Microstroma juglandis, not of this specimenMicrostroma juglandis (Bérenger) Sacc.1868G. Cummings; A.B & A.C Seymore
A photograph of the species Chaetura pelagica, not of this specimenChaetura pelagica (Linnaeus, 1758)1872Collector(s): William BrewsterGranville
A photograph of the species Botrychium lanceolatum, not of this specimenBotrychium lanceolatum (S.G.Gmel.) Ångstr.1873S. M. Piper
A photograph of the species Eleusine indica, not of this specimenEleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.1874Frederick N. Pease
A photograph of the species Botrychium dissectum, not of this specimenBotrychium dissectum Spreng.1879not recorded
A photograph of the species Puccinia circaeae, not of this specimenPuccinia circaeae Pers.1880A.B. Seymour
A photograph of the species Puccinia coronata, not of this specimenPuccinia coronata Corda1880A.B. Seymour
A photograph of the species Balansia hypoxylon, not of this specimenBalansia hypoxylon (Peck) G.F.Atk.1882A. B. Seymour

All 1,691 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Tolland Center2.0 miles39
Camp Spruce Hill2.3 miles39
West Granville5.5 miles39
Baird Four Corners7.0 miles39
Granville Center8.9 miles39
Granville9.8 miles42
Blandford9.8 miles36
North Blandford10.2 miles36

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608094. 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.