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South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts

44 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1985. It stands in South Hadley town. It lies in ZIP code area 01075. It stands on Buttery Brook. The Survey maps it on the Springfield North quadrangle.

South Hadley Falls within Hampshire County

Then and now

1886 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 99 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 Hadley Falls, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of South Hadley Falls, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

44 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

204 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of South Hadley Falls between 2014 and 2020, burning about 153 acres in total. 25 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
Equipment and vehicle use83
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Natural25
Debris and open burning16
Recreation and ceremony11
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
9 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
11 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,678 shown

Museums hold 1,678 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Hadley Falls between 1831 and 1975: 1,024 Plantae, 463 Animalia, 173 Fungi, 11 Chromista, 5 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Albee, A. B. Seymour, A. C. Gibson 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 Camissonia LinkCamissonia Link1898B. L. Robinson
A photograph of the species Carex bromoides, not of this specimenCarex bromoides Willd.1831Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex vesicaria, not of this specimenCarex vesicaria L.1836Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex vestita, not of this specimenCarex vestita Willd.1836Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Kalmia angustifolia, not of this specimenKalmia angustifolia f. angustifolia1838L. DeWetteNorthampton.
A photograph of the species Kalmia latifolia, not of this specimenKalmia latifolia var. latifolia1838L. DeWetteNorthampton.
A photograph of the species Pogonia ophioglossoides, not of this specimenPogonia ophioglossoides (L.) Ker Gawl.1838L. DeWetteNorthampton.
A photograph of the species Meleagris gallopavo, not of this specimenMeleagris gallopavo silvestris Vieillot, 18171847William D. WhitneyMount Tom
A photograph of the species Stellaria graminea, not of this specimenStellaria graminea L.1849not recorded
A photograph of the species Drymocallis arguta, not of this specimenDrymocallis arguta (Pursh) Rydb.1851Hexamer, A.C.; Maier, F.W.Mount Holyolke
A photograph of the species Carex amphibola, not of this specimenCarex amphibola Steud.1858J. BlakeMt. Holyoke, Mass.
A photograph of the species Carex platyphylla, not of this specimenCarex platyphylla J.Carey1858J. BlakeMt. Holyoke

All 1,678 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 15 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of South Hadley Falls: 9 producers, 6 past producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Brick Clay, Clay, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
South Hadlay SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Clay PitBrick ClayProducerClay
Clay PitClayPast Producer
Clay PitBrick ClayProducerClay
Clay PitClayPast Producer
Clay PitBrick ClayProducerClay
Clay PitClayPast Producer
Granby Pit IiStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

Storms nearby

9 since 2011

The National Weather Service names South Hadley Falls in 9 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 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
August 2011FloodSouth Hadley Falls$50,000After receiving three to eight inches of heavy rain from Tropical Storm Irene, flooding occurred along River Road in South Hadley, closing the road.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindSouth Hadley Falls$2,000In South Hadley, multiple trees and wires were down on North Main Street.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindSouth Hadley Falls$1,500In Granby, multiple trees were down on Rt. 202.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSouth Hadley Falls$1,500In South Hadley there was a tree down near Lyman and Newton Street and two trees were down on West Summit Street.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindSouth Hadley Falls$1,000In Holyoke, trees and wires were reported down on School Street and Dwight Street.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSouth Hadley Falls$500In South Hadley, a tree was down on the Route 202 South rotary.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSouth Hadley Falls$300In South Hadley, a tree was reported down.
May 2017HailSouth Hadley Falls-At 616 PM EST, Hail up to Quarter size was reported on Marcel Street in South Hadley.
July 2013Flash FloodSouth Hadley Falls-The intersection of Routes 202 and 33 were flooded with over a foot of water.

Every storm recorded in Hampshire 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
Great Swamp2.1 miles44
South Hadley3.2 miles44
Thermopylae4.5 miles44
Mount Tom4.9 miles44
Moody Corner4.9 miles44
Easthampton5.0 miles42
Granby5.2 miles44
Hockanum5.3 miles44

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 Q122544013The 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 609090. 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.