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South Deerfield, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Deerfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 01373. It stands on North Sugarloaf Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Mount Toby quadrangle. 1,930 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 197 feet above sea level.

South Deerfield within Franklin County

Population over time

2 figures

South Deerfield grew from 1,880 to 1,930 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
20101,880
20201,930+50 (+3%)

Then and now

1885 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of South Deerfield, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of South Deerfield, surveyed 1885

Compare 1885 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

42 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.

Wapping School, Greenfield Road, South Deerfield, Franklin County, MA
Wapping School, Greenfield Road, South Deerfield, Franklin County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

41 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of South Deerfield between 2002 and 2020, burning about 44 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 burning21
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
19 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 July 2004Naturalunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 June 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
21 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlMATHEWS RIDGE FIRE
2 May 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder 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 10,169 shown

Museums hold 10,169 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Deerfield between 1781 and 1975: 3,873 Animalia, 3,562 Plantae, 2,415 Fungi, 129 Chromista, 100 Unrecorded, 90 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A V Osmun, A., A. Allen 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 Cercospora violae Sacc.Cercospora violae Sacc.1895Ralph E. SmithHothouse, Mass. Agr. College, Amherst
Specimen of Septoria petroselini Desm.Septoria petroselini Desm.1895R. E. SmithHothouse, Mass. Agr. College
Specimen of Bombus bimaculatus Cresson, 1863Bombus bimaculatus Cresson, 18631899[Not Stated]Hatch Experiment Station
A photograph of the species Carex argyrantha, not of this specimenCarex argyrantha Tuck. ex Dewey1781H. G. JesupAmherst in Hampshire Co., and Leverett in Franklin Co., Massachusetts. [Inferred counties from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Carex foenea, not of this specimenCarex foenea Willd.1781H. G. JesupAnd Leverett
A photograph of the species Ustilago nuda, not of this specimenUstilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle1810J.E. Humphrey
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 Ranunculus ambigens, not of this specimenRanunculus ambigens S.Watson1831S. Shurtleff
A photograph of the species Dactylis glomerata, not of this specimenDactylis glomerata L.1839S J Ewer
A photograph of the species Solidago arguta, not of this specimenSolidago arguta Aiton1841Collector(s): Henry Holmes Babcock, Henry Griswold JesupAmherst
A photograph of the species Phlebiella vaga, not of this specimenPhlebiella vaga (Fr.) P.Karst.1845Illegible collector name

All 10,169 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 20 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of South Deerfield: 7 occurrences, 6 prospects, 5 past producers, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Silver. 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
Leverett Lead MinesLead, Copper, Barium-Barite, Silver, ZincPast ProducerBarite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Leverett Lead MinesCopper, Lead, Zinc, SilverPast Producer
Southeast Conway Manganese ProspectManganeseProspect
Whately - Conway Lead VeinsSilver, LeadOccurrenceGalena
Leverett Lead MineLead, CopperPast ProducerVein
Southwest Deerfield Barite OccurrenBarium-BariteOccurrence
Southwest Deerfield Barite Vein OccurrenceBarium-BariteOccurrenceBarite
Southeast of West Whately Galena VeinLead, SilverOccurrenceGalena
Unnamed ProspectLead, SilverOccurrenceGalena
Unnamed ProspectLead, SilverOccurrenceGalena

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms nearby

2 since 2012

The National Weather Service names South Deerfield in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
September 2012Thunderstorm WindSouth Deerfield$5,000Wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2024Flash FloodSouth Deerfield-In South Deerfield, a restaurant kitchen at the Tree House Brewery was flooded.

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
Sunderland1.7 miles42
East Whately2.2 miles42
Mill River2.4 miles34
Whately3.0 miles42
Roaring Brook Camp3.2 miles42
North Sunderland3.2 miles32
Wapping3.3 miles32
West Deerfield4.0 miles34

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 South DeerfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2680543The 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 608942. 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.