Swift River, Massachusetts

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.

1886 1997

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.

• 1886 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1896 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1897 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:31680
• 1955 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:24000
• 1955 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:31680
• 1955 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:25000
• 1972 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:25000
• 1975 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:25000
• 1997 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Swift River between 2015 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. None 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.

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:

• West Chesterfield
• Chesterfield
• Cummington
• Lithia
• Bryant Four Corners
• Goshen

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Museums hold 828 specimens collected within 10 miles of Swift River between 1825 and 1975: 382 Fungi, 312 Plantae, 113 Animalia, 17 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A., A. Gurney, A. K. Harrison 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
	Buellia disciformis (Fr.) Mudd	1900	George P. Clinton	Hammond Pond
	Graphis scripta (L.) Ach.	1900	George P. Clinton	Hammond Pond
	Carex pauciflora Lightf.	1825	Collector unspecified	Ashfield. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
	Veratrum viride subsp. viride	1847	not recorded	Brunswick and Goshen
	Halenia deflexa (Sm.) Griseb.	1868	Collector(s): Henry Griswold Jesup	Cummington
	Botrychium matricariifolium (Döll) A.Braun ex Koch	1873	H. G. Jesup
	Botrychium virginianum subsp. typicum R.T.Clausen	1873	Jesup, H.G.	Goshen.
	Phegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt	1873	H. G. Jesup
	Phegopteris hexagonoptera (Michx.) Fée	1873	H. G. Jesup
	Botrychium lanceolatum (S.G.Gmel.) Ångstr.	1874	H. G. Jesup
	Diphasiastrum tristachyum (Pursh) Holub	1874	Jesup, H.G.	Conway
	Lactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt.	1874	H. G. Jesup

All 828 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Swift River: 8 past producers, 6 producers, 6 occurrences, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Lithium, Stone, Quartz, 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 Hampshire 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 608672. 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.