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

South Egremont, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Egremont town. It lies in ZIP code area 01230. It stands on Karner Brook. The Survey maps it on the Egremont quadrangle.

South Egremont within Berkshire County

Then and now

1885 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 112 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 Egremont, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of South Egremont, surveyed 1885

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.

Town Hall, State Routes 41 & 17, South Egremont, Berkshire County, MA
Town Hall, State Routes 41 & 17, South Egremont, Berkshire County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

35 since 2000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of South Egremont between 2000 and 2019, burning about 37 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
13 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 August 2016Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
20 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,239 shown

Museums hold 1,239 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Egremont between 1860 and 1975: 1,043 Plantae, 146 Animalia, 48 Fungi, 1 Chromista, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Brown, A. L. Ericson, A. Lorenz 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 Equisetum sylvaticum L.Equisetum sylvaticum L.1900Day, M.E.Sheffield.
A photograph of the species Percopsis omiscomaycus, not of this specimenPercopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)1860Britton McCabeGreen R. (trib. of Housatonic R.), 1 mi. S of Great Barrington on Rt. 23
A photograph of the species Platanthera peramoena, not of this specimenPlatanthera peramoena A.Gray1863J. T. StewartGlendale
A photograph of the species Spiranthes magnicamporum, not of this specimenSpiranthes magnicamporum Sheviak1863J. T. StewartGlendale
A photograph of the species Carex vesicaria, not of this specimenCarex vesicaria L.1878L. H. HoysradtMt. Everett.
A photograph of the species Euphorbia polygonifolia, not of this specimenEuphorbia polygonifolia L.1879not recorded
A photograph of the species Juncus tenuis, not of this specimenJuncus tenuis Willd.1884J. BallGreat Barrington
A photograph of the species Solidago caesia, not of this specimenSolidago caesia L.1884J. BallGreat Barrington
A photograph of the species Anthoceros laevis, not of this specimenAnthoceros laevis L.1887UnknownSheffield
A photograph of the species Diphyscium foliosum, not of this specimenDiphyscium foliosum (Hedw.) D.Mohr1897Elizabeth G. BrittonMount Washington
Gyrostachys ochroleuca Rydb.1897Mrs. LongMt. Washington
A photograph of the species Hylocomium splendens, not of this specimenHylocomium splendens (Hedw.) Schimp.1897Elizabeth G. BrittonBashbish Falls

All 1,239 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

10 since 2012

The National Weather Service names South Egremont in 10 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Thunderstorm WindSouth Egremont-A tree was downed onto wires on Baldwin Hill Road South at Townhouse Hill Road.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSouth Egremont-A tree and wires were downed on Jug End Road.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindSouth Egremont-A tree was reported down across Route 23 in North Egremont due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindSouth Egremont-Wires were reported down on Route 41 in Sheffield due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindSouth Egremont-Multiple trees and wires were reported down in South Egremont due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2015HailSouth Egremont-Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Egremont.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSouth Egremont-Trees were downed on Creamery Road in Egremont due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindSouth Egremont-A tree and wires were reported down 2 miles west of South Egremont due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSouth Egremont-Trees were downed due to thunderstorm winds one mile south of South Egremont. Route 41 was closed as a result of trees blocking the roadway.
May 2012HailSouth Egremont-Quarter sized hail was reported during a thunderstorm in South Egremont.

Every storm recorded in Berkshire 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
Egremont Plain1.7 miles42
North Egremont2.7 miles42
Brookside3.2 miles40
Berkshire Heights3.2 miles40
Great Barrington3.8 miles40
Belcher Square4.6 miles40
Sheffield4.7 miles43
Alford5.2 miles42

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.

Wikidata item Q122561357The 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 607725. 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.

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.