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

Tyringham, Massachusetts

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Tyringham town. It lies in ZIP code area 01264. It stands on Cobble Hill. The Survey maps it on the Monterey quadrangle.

Tyringham within Berkshire County

Then and now

1888 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tyringham, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Tyringham, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

38 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.

Photographs

4 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Tyringham Shaker Settlement, Building No. 24, Jerusalem Road, Tyringham, Berkshire County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Tyringham Shaker Settlement, Building No. 21, Jerusalem Road, Tyringham, Berkshire County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Tyringham Shaker Settlement, Building No. 26, Jerusalem Road, Tyringham, Berkshire County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Tyringham Shaker Settlement, Dam, Jerusalem Road, Tyringham, Berkshire County, MA
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

6 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Tyringham between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
6 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 April 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 April 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
16 April 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 October 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,192 shown

Museums hold 2,192 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tyringham between 1833 and 1975: 1,118 Animalia, 761 Plantae, 305 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Brown, A. E. Treat, 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Potamogeton pusillus subsp. tenuissimus (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) K.Richt.	1900	P. B. Weatherbee
Betula alleghaniensis Britton	1833	Collector unknown
Betula pumila L.	1833	Collector unspecified
Carex utriculata Boott	1833	W. L. Worcester
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1833	Collector unknown
Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman	1833	Collector unknown
Parnassia caroliniana Michx.	1834	not recorded
Platanthera peramoena A.Gray	1863	J. T. Stewart	Glendale
Spiranthes magnicamporum Sheviak	1863	J. T. Stewart	Glendale
Homalia trichomanoides (Hedw.) Schimp.	1867	E. C. Howe
Acer saccharum Marshall	1897	Vail, A.M.	Tyringham
Acer spicatum Lam.	1897	Vail, A.M.	Vicinity of Tyringham

All 2,192 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Tyringham: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Marble, Dimension, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Lee Lime Corp	Calcium	Past Producer	Calcite
Lee Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lee Marble Inc Qy & Plant	Marble, Dimension	Producer
Lee White Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer	Metamorphic
Abby Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Abby and Sons Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
East Lee Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

4 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Tyringham in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Tyringham	-	Trees were reported down on Webster Road.
February 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Tyringham	-	Around 100 trees were snapped or uprooted. Some were snapped 20-25 feet above the ground. All were blown in the same direction. The damage swath was around 100 yards in diameter. Minor damage was also reported to a house.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Tyringham	-	Trees were reported down on a car in Tyringham due to thunderstorm winds. The downed trees blocked a roadway.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Tyringham	-	Numerous trees were reported blown down.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Leisure Lee	3.3 miles	38
East Lee	3.7 miles	38
West Becket	3.8 miles	38
Camp Jayson	4.0 miles	38
South Lee	4.5 miles	42
Monterey	4.6 miles	38
Lee	4.7 miles	38
North Otis	5.1 miles	37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607784. 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.