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

State Line, Massachusetts

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in West Stockbridge town. It lies in ZIP code area 01266. It stands on Baldwin Brook. The Survey maps it on the State Line quadrangle.

State Line 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 State Line, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of State Line, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

43 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

76 since 1995

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of State Line between 1995 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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	36
Debris and open burning	15
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 July 2001	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
25 July 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 July 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 July 2001	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
2 July 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 783 shown

Museums hold 783 specimens collected within 10 miles of State Line between 1833 and 1975: 409 Plantae, 214 Fungi, 154 Animalia, 2 Chromista, 2 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Evans, A. Brown, A. F. Beale 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
Potamogeton pusillus subsp. tenuissimus (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) K.Richt.	1900	P. B. Weatherbee
Betula alleghaniensis Britton	1833	Collector unknown
Betula pumila L.	1833	Collector unspecified
Carex utriculata Boott	1833	W. L. Worcester
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1833	Collector unknown
Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman	1833	Collector unknown
Parnassia caroliniana Michx.	1834	not recorded
Bromus latiglumis (Shear) Hitchc.	1857	W. H. Leggett
Cornus rugosa Lam.	1859	W. H. Leggett
Platanthera peramoena A.Gray	1863	J. T. Stewart	Glendale
Bartramia pomiformis Hedw.	1895	not recorded
Poa trivialis L.	1898	A. K. Harrison	Lebanon Springs

All 783 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 47 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of State Line: 29 past producers, 13 producers, 4 occurrences, 1 prospect. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Lead, Silver, Zinc. 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
Canaan Lead Silver Mines	Lead, Silver, Zinc	Producer	Replacement Vein
Cheever Mines	Iron, Manganese	Producer	Goethite, Limonite
Cone Limestone Mine	Iron, Magnesite, Zinc	Past Producer	1827
Gott-Mesick Bog Mn Occurrence	Manganese, Iron	Producer
No 6 Quarry & Plnt Lane & Son	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Canaan Lead Silver Mines	Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Canaan Pb-Ag Mines	Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer	Vein
Gaston Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
John S Lane and Son Inc	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Nolan Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

3 since 2019

The National Weather Service names State Line in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	State Line	-	A tree was downed on Interstate 90 in the westbound lane near West Stockbridge.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	State Line	-	Multiple trees were down on road near Route 41 and Baker Street.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	State Line	-	no account filed

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Crane Lake Camp	1.8 miles	43
Richmond Furnace	1.8 miles	43
West Stockbridge	2.3 miles	42
Richmond	2.8 miles	42
West Stockbridge Center	2.9 miles	43
Camp Kingsmont	3.2 miles	43
Carey Corner	3.8 miles	42
Rockdale Mills	4.3 miles	43

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607741. 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.