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Stearnsville, Massachusetts

44 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Pittsfield City. It lies in ZIP code area 01201. It stands on Jacoby Brook. The Survey maps it on the Pittsfield West quadrangle.

Stearnsville within Berkshire County

Then and now

1888 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stearnsville, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Stearnsville, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

44 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

118 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Stearnsville between 2002 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning60
Recreation and ceremony18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
28 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 September 2017Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 September 2016Other causesunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 August 2002Smokingunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 July 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 July 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 1,022 shown

Museums hold 1,022 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stearnsville between 1833 and 1975: 458 Plantae, 373 Animalia, 187 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Evans, A. Brown, A. H. Mead 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 Bombus ternarius Say, 1837Bombus ternarius Say, 18371898[Not Stated]Hinsdale
Specimen of Potamogeton pusillus subsp. tenuissimus (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) K.Richt.Potamogeton pusillus subsp. tenuissimus (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) K.Richt.1900P. B. Weatherbee
A photograph of the species Carex utriculata, not of this specimenCarex utriculata Boott1833W. L. Worcester
A photograph of the species Parnassia caroliniana, not of this specimenParnassia caroliniana Michx.1834not recorded
A photograph of the species Persicaria amphibia, not of this specimenPersicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre1835C. A. ShurtleffPittsfield
A photograph of the species Bromus latiglumis, not of this specimenBromus latiglumis (Shear) Hitchc.1857W. H. Leggett
A photograph of the species Solidago patula, not of this specimenSolidago patula Muhl. ex Willd.1858Brewer; Chickering
A photograph of the species Cornus rugosa, not of this specimenCornus rugosa Lam.1859W. H. Leggett
A photograph of the species Collinsonia canadensis, not of this specimenCollinsonia canadensis L.1865W. H. Leggett
A photograph of the species Carex debilis, not of this specimenCarex debilis var. rudgei L.H.Bailey1866W. H. Leggett
A photograph of the species Cyperus aristatus, not of this specimenCyperus aristatus Rottb.1866W. H. Leggett
A photograph of the species Buteo platypterus, not of this specimenButeo platypterus platypterus (Vieillot, 1823)1896Collector(s): B. HoagStephentown

All 1,022 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 16 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Stearnsville: 10 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Lebanon Springs Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
General Sand and Stone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Vincent Pit & Plnt Pittsfield S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vincent Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Andrews MineIronPast Producer
Bacon MineIronProducer1846
Bacon MineIronOccurrence
Branch MineIronOccurrence1856
Branch MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Branch MineIronPast Producer

Every working 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
West Pittsfield0.8 miles44
Barkerville1.3 miles44
Camp Marion White1.9 miles44
Hancock Shaker Village2.1 miles44
Camp Russell2.3 miles44
Camp Witawentin2.5 miles44
Camp Stevenson2.6 miles44
Pittsfield2.9 miles37

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 Q122551670The 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 607743. 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.