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

Southfield, Massachusetts

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in New Marlborough town. It lies in ZIP code area 01259. It stands on Cooks Ledge. The Survey maps it on the South Sandisfield quadrangle.

Southfield 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 Southfield, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Southfield, 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

12 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Southfield between 2015 and 2017, burning about 72 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 burning11
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
29 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 April 2015Debris and open burning1.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 April 2015Debris and open burning1.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
20 April 2015Debris and open burning7.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
18 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 April 2017Equipment and vehicle use47 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 April 2017Debris and open burning10 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts 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 1,078 shown

Museums hold 1,078 specimens collected within 10 miles of Southfield between 1860 and 1974: 913 Plantae, 102 Animalia, 62 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Brown, A. Lorenz, A. Stone 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 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
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
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 Liriodendron tulipifera, not of this specimenLiriodendron tulipifera L.1897Vail, A.M.Vicinity of Tyringham
A photograph of the species Polystichum acrostichoides, not of this specimenPolystichum acrostichoides (Michx.) Schott1899C. HarriotGreat Barrington

All 1,078 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Southfield: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Nickel, Iron, Gold, Sulfur. 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
Cleveland MineIron, Gold, SulfurPast Producer
Hotchkiss MineNickel, IronPast Producer
Mill River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Toby Hill Iron MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

3 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Southfield in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 1997Thunderstorm WindSouthfield$6,000no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindSouthfield-Trees were reported down in New Marlborough due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2007HailSouthfield-Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Southfield.

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
New Marlborough1.5 miles38
Mill River2.0 miles43
Konkapot4.1 miles38
Hartsville4.2 miles40
Gomorrah4.5 miles43
South Sandisfield4.5 miles38
Clayton4.7 miles43
Sandisfield4.8 miles38

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607726. 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.