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

South Hadley, Massachusetts

44 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in South Hadley town. It lies in ZIP code area 01075. It stands on Prospect Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mount Holyoke quadrangle.

South Hadley within Hampshire County

Then and now

1885 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 100 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, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of South Hadley, surveyed 1885

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

174 since 2001

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of South Hadley between 2001 and 2020, burning about 364 acres in total. 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	64
Equipment and vehicle use	58
Natural	21
Debris and open burning	15
Recreation and ceremony	13
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	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
9 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
27 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
2 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
18 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Sylvio O. Conte National Wildlife Refuge	MILL RV DIV MA-SCR #4
18 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Sylvio O. Conte National Wildlife Refuge	MILL RV DIV MA-SCR #3
17 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Sylvio O. Conte National Wildlife Refuge	MILL RV DIV MA-SCR #2
15 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Sylvio O. Conte National Wildlife Refuge	MILL RV DIV MA-SCR #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 5,829 shown

Museums hold 5,829 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Hadley between 1781 and 1975: 2,843 Plantae, 1,519 Fungi, 1,260 Animalia, 133 Chromista, 64 Protozoa, 9 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Albee, A. Allen, A. B. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Cercospora violae Sacc.	1895	Ralph E. Smith	Hothouse, Mass. Agr. College, Amherst
Actias luna Linnaeus, 1758	1896	not recorded
Plathemis lydia (Drury, 1773)	1896	not recorded
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
Carex bromoides Willd.	1831	Collector unknown
Ranunculus ambigens S.Watson	1831	S. Shurtleff
Carex vesicaria L.	1836	Collector unknown
Carex vestita Willd.	1836	Collector unspecified
Kalmia angustifolia f. angustifolia	1838	L. DeWette	Northampton.
Kalmia latifolia var. latifolia	1838	L. DeWette	Northampton.

All 5,829 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 17 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of South Hadley: 10 producers, 6 past producers, 1 unknown. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Brick Clay, Clay, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
South Hadlay Sand	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Clay Pit	Brick Clay	Producer	Clay
Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Clay Pit	Brick Clay	Producer	Clay
Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Clay Pit	Brick Clay	Producer	Clay
Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Sandstone

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

Storms nearby

14 since 1996

The National Weather Service names South Hadley in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2014	Flash Flood	South Hadley	$50,000	In Northampton, Route 9 near the VA hospital was flooded with a foot of water. Portions of Market and State Streets were flooded. King Street was flooded in front of the McDonald's. Multiple basements along Church Street were flooded with 6 to 8 feet of water. Portions of route 202 in South Hadley were flooded with at least a foot of water.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	South Hadley	$15,000	Large branches were downed in South Hadley.
June 2003	Flash Flood	South Hadley	$15,000	no account filed
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	South Hadley	$10,000	Numerous branches were downed by thunderstorm winds, including one large branch that blocked Ferry Street.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	South Hadley	$2,000	In South Hadley, a tree was reported to have damaged the back of a house.
September 2025	Hail	South Hadley	-	In South Hadley 0.75 inch hail fell.
July 2020	Hail	South Hadley	-	In South Hadley, dime size hail at 1115 AM EST increased over the next 5 minutes to half dollar size hail at 1120 AM EST.
June 2007	Hail	South Hadley	-	Penny size hail.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	South Hadley	-	Large limbs down.
May 2001	Hail	South Hadley	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	South Hadley	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	South Hadley	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	South Hadley	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	South Hadley	-	no account filed

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Moody Corner	1.7 miles	44
Thermopylae	2.1 miles	44
Great Swamp	2.3 miles	44
Aldrich Mills	2.5 miles	44
Hockanum	2.9 miles	44
Mount Tom	2.9 miles	44
Granby	3.1 miles	44
South Hadley Falls	3.2 miles	44

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609089. 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.