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

South Monson, Massachusetts

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Monson town. It lies in ZIP code area 01057. It stands on Conant Brook. The Survey maps it on the Monson quadrangle.

South Monson within Hampden County

Then and now

1887 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 98 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 Monson, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of South Monson, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

33 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

34 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of South Monson between 2015 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. 8 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
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	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
22 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
15 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 June 2018	Natural	2.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
2 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 April 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 822 shown

Museums hold 822 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Monson between 1870 and 1975: 502 Fungi, 182 Plantae, 119 Animalia, 14 Chromista, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. E. Kirk, 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
Polygonum pensylvanicum L.	1897	Morris,E.L. s.n. [1897-08]	[label: Flora of North America - Herbarium of E.L. Morris] Monson. Massachussets. Rubbish heaps
Catharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921)	1870	Collector(s): Joseph H. Batty	South Wilbraham
Nitella megacarpa (T.F.A.) R.D.W.	1874	Piper, S. M.
Lygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.	1877	C. M. Newell
Calostoma cinnabarinum Desv.	1879	S. J. Harkness	Thorndike.
Calostoma fuscum (Berk.) Massee	1879	S. J. Harkness	Thorndike.
Calostoma lutescens (Schwein.) Burnap, 1897	1879	Collector unspecified	Thorndike.
Cystopteris tenuis (Michx.) Desv.	1879	not recorded
Cryptosporella anomala (Peck) Sacc.	1892	Graves H.	Palmer
Goodyera pubescens (Willd.) R.Br.	1892	E. L. Morris	Monson
Potamogeton natans L.	1892	E. L. Morris	Monson
Sphagnum subsecundum Nees	1893	not recorded	Monson

All 822 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of South Monson: 4 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
J J Raczka Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
J.J. Raczka Sand and Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Jurczyk Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Monson Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Monson Sand and Gravel Corp	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Palmer Bituminous Corp	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Palmer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Palmer Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Storms nearby

4 since 2008

The National Weather Service names South Monson in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	South Monson	$12,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree, wires, and utility pole on Lower Hampden Road in Monson.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	South Monson	$2,000	Power lines on Lower Hampden Road were downed by thunderstorm winds.
November 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	South Monson	$800	In Monson, a tree and wires were down on May Hill Road.
October 2017	Flood	South Monson	-	Flooding in Monson on South Main Street near Oak Street.

Every storm recorded in Hampden 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
Monson	1.0 miles	33
South Factory Village	1.6 miles	33
North Monson	2.1 miles	33
Colton Hollow	2.6 miles	33
Dingley Dell	3.4 miles	33
Blanchardville	3.8 miles	35
Fentonville	3.9 miles	35
Tenneyville	4.1 miles	35

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 Q122563851

The 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 609604. 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.