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

Steeles Corners, Massachusetts

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Williamstown town. It lies in ZIP code area 01267. It stands on West Branch Green River. The Survey maps it on the Williamstown quadrangle.

Steeles Corners within Berkshire County

Then and now

1886 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 111 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Steeles Corners, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Steeles Corners, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

40 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

18 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Steeles Corners between 2005 and 2018, burning about 16 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
9 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2017Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 May 2015Debris and open burning2.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
10 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,158 shown

Museums hold 1,158 specimens collected within 10 miles of Steeles Corners between 1828 and 1975: 608 Plantae, 384 Animalia, 151 Fungi, 9 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A K Harrison, A Schwartz, A. Cowee 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 Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Richardson, 1823Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Richardson, 18231898J. R. Churchill
Specimen of Carex pensylvanica Lam.Carex pensylvanica Lam.1898J. R. Churchill
Specimen of Lycopodium annotinum var. pungens (Desv.) La Pylaie ex Desv.Lycopodium annotinum var. pungens (Desv.) La Pylaie ex Desv.1898Kofoid, C.A.North Adams.
A photograph of the species Carex aestivalis, not of this specimenCarex aestivalis M.A.Curtis ex A.Gray1828Collector unknownSaddle Mountain, near Williamstown.
A photograph of the species Carex emmonsii, not of this specimenCarex emmonsii var. muhlenbergii (A.Gray ex Torrey) Rettig1828Collector unspecifiedWilliamstown. [Inferred locality from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Cystopteris bulbifera, not of this specimenCystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.1828Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Dryopteris goldiana, not of this specimenDryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray1828Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Fraxinus americana, not of this specimenFraxinus americana L.1828J. Torrey
Jamesoniella autumnalis (DC.) Steph.1828Ebenezer Emmons
A photograph of the species Tilia americana, not of this specimenTilia americana L.1828Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Scorzoneroides autumnalis, not of this specimenScorzoneroides autumnalis (L.) Moench1850not recorded
A photograph of the species Spiraea tomentosa, not of this specimenSpiraea tomentosa L.1850not recorded

All 1,158 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
South Williamstown0.0 miles40
Sweets Corner2.0 miles40
Hemlock Brook (historical)2.1 miles40
New Ashford3.8 miles40
Williamstown4.1 miles40
Meadowvale4.1 miles40
North Hancock4.2 miles38
Hemlock Brook Estates4.7 miles40

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1978953. 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.