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

South Sandisfield, Massachusetts

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Sandisfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 01255. It stands on Cherry Brook. The Survey maps it on the South Sandisfield quadrangle.

South Sandisfield within Berkshire County

Then and now

1888 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 109 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 Sandisfield, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of South Sandisfield, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

38 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

8 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of South Sandisfield between 2015 and 2018, burning about 71 acres in total. None 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 burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
3 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 April 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
16 April 2016Smoking1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 April 2017Equipment and vehicle use47 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
12 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 March 2016Debris and open burning10 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
31 January 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 522 shown

Museums hold 522 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Sandisfield between 1873 and 1973: 378 Plantae, 79 Animalia, 65 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Stone, A. W. Cheever, Albert F. Hill 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
A photograph of the species Botrychium lanceolatum, not of this specimenBotrychium lanceolatum (S.G.Gmel.) Ångstr.1873S. M. Piper
A photograph of the species Gentianella quinquefolia, not of this specimenGentianella quinquefolia subsp. quinquefolia1875not recorded
A photograph of the species Euphorbia polygonifolia, not of this specimenEuphorbia polygonifolia L.1879not recorded
A photograph of the species Chordeiles minor, not of this specimenChordeiles minor minor (J.R.Forster, 1771)1883Collector(s): H. C. Johnsonnear New Marlboro
Ustilago neglecta Niessl1886Humphrey J. E.Chestnut Hill
A photograph of the species Lycoperdon pedicellatum, not of this specimenLycoperdon pedicellatum Peck1892J. L. Zabriskie
A photograph of the species Erysiphe aggregata, not of this specimenErysiphe aggregata (Peck) Farlow1893Schrenk HermannChestnut Hill
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium ellisii, not of this specimenGymnosporangium ellisii (Berk.) Berk.1894Duggars B. M.Chestnut Hill
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1894not recordedChestnut Hill
Baeomyces roseus Pers.1895George T. MooreChestnut Hill
A photograph of the species Hypomyces hyalinus, not of this specimenHypomyces hyalinus (Schwein.) Tul. & C.Tul.1897Hollis Webster
A photograph of the species Mytilidion karstenii, not of this specimenMytilidion karstenii Sacc.1897Thaxter, R.Chestnut Hill

All 522 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of South Sandisfield: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Nickel. 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
Hotchkiss MineNickel, IronPast Producer
Toby Hill Iron MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

1 since 2018

The National Weather Service names South Sandisfield in 1 storm report between 2018 and 2018: 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
May 2018HailSouth Sandisfield-Quarter sized hail was reported in South Sandisfield during a thunderstorm.

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
Konkapot0.6 miles38
Sandisfield3.2 miles38
Montville3.9 miles38
West New Boston4.1 miles39
Southfield4.5 miles38
Roosterville4.7 miles39
New Boston4.8 miles39
New Marlborough5.2 miles38

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 Q122542197The 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 607730. 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.