State Line, Massachusetts

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.

1887 1985

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.

• 1887 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1919 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1946 USGS Monson quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Monson quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Monson quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Monson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Monson quadrangle1:25000, 3 printings
• 1975 USGS Monson quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of State Line between 1999 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Blanchardville
• Colton Hollow
• Dingley Dell
• East Wilbraham
• Fentonville
• Hampden

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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.

Image	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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of State Line: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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.

Every working recorded in Hampden County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.