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

Stevens Corner, Massachusetts

44 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Richmond town. It lies in ZIP code area 01254. It stands on Ford Brook. The Survey maps it on the Pittsfield West quadrangle.

Stevens Corner 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 Stevens Corner, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Stevens Corner, 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

80 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Stevens Corner between 2002 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
18 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
1 September 2017Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 August 2002Smokingunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire 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 1,071 shown

Museums hold 1,071 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stevens Corner between 1833 and 1975: 512 Plantae, 294 Fungi, 258 Animalia, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista, 2 Protozoa. 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
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 Betula alleghaniensis, not of this specimenBetula alleghaniensis Britton1833Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Betula pumila, not of this specimenBetula pumila L.1833Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Carex utriculata, not of this specimenCarex utriculata Boott1833W. L. Worcester
A photograph of the species Dennstaedtia punctilobula, not of this specimenDennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore1833Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Gymnocarpium dryopteris, not of this specimenGymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman1833Collector unknown
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 Bartramia pomiformis, not of this specimenBartramia pomiformis Hedw.1895not recorded
A photograph of the species Poa trivialis, not of this specimenPoa trivialis L.1898A. K. HarrisonLebanon Springs

All 1,071 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 37 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Stevens Corner: 25 past producers, 8 producers, 4 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Canaan Lead Silver MinesLead, Silver, ZincProducerReplacement Vein
Cheever MinesIron, ManganeseProducerGoethite, Limonite
Cheever MinesIron, ManganesePast Producer
Cone Limestone MineIron, Magnesite, ZincPast Producer1827
Canaan Lead Silver MinesLead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Canaan Pb-Ag MinesLead, Silver, ZincPast ProducerVein
Gaston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Nolan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Andrews MineIronPast Producer
Bacon MineIronProducer1846

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

7 since 2014

The National Weather Service names Stevens Corner in 7 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2022Thunderstorm WindStevens Corner-Trees and wires were downed on Swamp Road in the Town of Richmond.
July 2021FloodStevens Corner-Water covered a portion of Swamp Road in the Town of Richmond.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindStevens Corner-Several large trees were downed, including one into a moving vehicle.
August 2018Flash FloodStevens Corner-Summit Road was closed due to flooding.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindStevens Corner-A tree was downed blocking Lake Road.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindStevens Corner-Trees and wires were reported down along Route 41 in Richmond due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2014Flash FloodStevens Corner-A brook was overflowing Shore Road in Pittsfield due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Camp Russell0.9 miles44
Camp Marion White1.4 miles44
Carey Corner2.0 miles42
Barkerville2.0 miles44
Hancock Shaker Village2.2 miles44
West Pittsfield2.4 miles44
Richmond2.7 miles42
Stearnsville3.3 miles44

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607746. 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.