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Tenneyville, Massachusetts

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Palmer Town City. It lies in ZIP code area 01069. It stands on Chicopee Brook. The Survey maps it on the Palmer quadrangle.

Tenneyville within Hampden County

Then and now

1887 to 1985

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.

Topographic sheet of Tenneyville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Tenneyville, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

35 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

78 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Tenneyville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 10 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.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony9
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 September 2018Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
12 September 2016Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,091 shown

Museums hold 1,091 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tenneyville between 1857 and 1975: 550 Fungi, 300 Plantae, 221 Animalia, 15 Chromista, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. E. Kirk, A. Lavallee 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 Polygonum pensylvanicum L.Polygonum pensylvanicum L.1897Morris,E.L. s.n. [1897-08][label: Flora of North America - Herbarium of E.L. Morris] Monson. Massachussets. Rubbish heaps
A photograph of the species Krigia virginica, not of this specimenKrigia virginica (L.) Willd.1857not recorded
A photograph of the species Carex cephalophora, not of this specimenCarex cephalophora Muhl. ex Willd.1858J. Blake
A photograph of the species Carex vestita, not of this specimenCarex vestita Willd.1858J. BlakeWare
A photograph of the species Castilleja coccinea, not of this specimenCastilleja coccinea (L.) Spreng.1858A. P. Chute
A photograph of the species Celastrus scandens, not of this specimenCelastrus scandens L.1858s.coll.
A photograph of the species Ranunculus flabellaris, not of this specimenRanunculus flabellaris Raf.1858A. P. Chute
Trifolium agrarium L.1858not recorded
A photograph of the species Zizia aurea, not of this specimenZizia aurea (L.) W.D.J.Koch1859A. P. Chute
A photograph of the species Carex tribuloides, not of this specimenCarex tribuloides Wahlenb.1870H. G. JesupBelchertown
Acer spicatum Lam.1891not recorded
Chimaphila umbellata (L.) W.P.C.Barton1891not recordedBelchertown

All 1,091 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Tenneyville: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: 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
J J Raczka Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
J.J. Raczka Sand and Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lizak's PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Palmer Bituminous CorpSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Palmer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Palmer Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hampden 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
Blanchardville0.6 miles35
Palmer0.9 miles35
Palmer Green Estates1.9 miles35
Meadowbrook Green1.9 miles35
North Monson2.0 miles33
Palmer Center2.1 miles35
Fentonville2.3 miles35
Thorndike2.8 miles35

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 Q122542232The 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 609610. 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.