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

State Line, Massachusetts

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands on Rattlesnake Hill. The Survey maps it on the Monson quadrangle.

State Line 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 State Line, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of State Line, 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

25 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of State Line between 2015 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 2 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	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
13 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
15 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Connecticut Division of Forestry	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
9 April 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
30 April 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	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 756 shown

Museums hold 756 specimens collected within 10 miles of State Line between 1870 and 1975: 488 Fungi, 150 Plantae, 99 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
Cystopteris tenuis (Michx.) Desv.	1879	not recorded
Asplenium platyneuron (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.	1880	Maria L. Owen
Cronartium comptoniae Arthur	1882	Seymour A. B.	Monson
unnamed	1883	Arthur B. Seymour	Monson
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 756 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of State Line: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Firestone Quarries	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Donlon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past 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

Every working 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
South Factory Village	2.8 miles	33
South Monson	4.2 miles	33
Monson	5.0 miles	33
Hampden	5.3 miles	38
Colton Hollow	5.6 miles	33
Wales	5.9 miles	36
North Monson	6.3 miles	33
Dingley Dell	6.9 miles	33

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 609607. 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.