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

Vining Hill, Massachusetts

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Southwick town. It lies in ZIP code area 01077. It stands on Tuttle Brook. The Survey maps it on the Southwick quadrangle.

Vining Hill within Hampden County

Then and now

1887 to 1997

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 Vining Hill, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Vining Hill, surveyed 1887

Compare 1887 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

42 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

36 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Vining Hill between 2015 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 5 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 use	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Fireworks	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
8 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
28 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
13 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
7 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
25 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
9 July 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,094 shown

Museums hold 2,094 specimens collected within 10 miles of Vining Hill between 1844 and 1975: 1,230 Fungi, 674 Plantae, 119 Animalia, 55 Chromista, 16 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & A. C. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & Clara E. Cummings 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
Fungi	1890	Seymour, Arthur Bliss	Granville
Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.	1890	Arthur B. Seymour	Granville
Sphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.	1893	Daniel C. Eaton
Carex siccata Dewey	1844	Collector unknown
Amphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fernald	1845	Collector unspecified
Alopecurus geniculatus L.	1850	not recorded
Lactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt.	1850	Collector unspecified
Carex canescens L.	1852	Collector unknown	Westfield.
Carex pallescens L.	1852	Collector unknown	Westfield
Eurybia schreberi (Nees) Nees	1852	C. A. Shurtleff
Lonicera dioica L.	1852	Collector unknown
Chelone glabra L.	1891	not recorded

All 2,094 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Vining Hill: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Granville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Great Brook Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Southwick Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Southwick Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Southwick Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Storms nearby

6 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Vining Hill in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2011	Flood	Vining Hill	$80,000	Three houses in Southwick were flooded. In Westfield, Mainline Drive was flooded at its intersection with Route 20. Portions of Union and Notre Dame Streets were also closed because of flooding. A house on East Mountain Road was flooded with 30 inches of water and two cars in the driveway were flooded.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Vining Hill	$2,500	In Southwick, multiple trees and wires were down on Industrial Road and Mort Vining Road.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Vining Hill	$2,000	In Southwick, there were several large trees downed.
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Vining Hill	$500	In Southwick, a large tree and wires were down.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Vining Hill	$500	In Southwick, a tree was down on Fred Jackson Road.
December 2018	Flood	Vining Hill	-	At 12:05 PM EST, Kline Road in Southwick was closed due to flooding.

Every storm 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Gillett Corner	1.1 miles	42
Congamond	2.0 miles	42
Camp Berkshire	2.4 miles	42
Southwick	2.5 miles	42
Granville	3.9 miles	42
Granville Center	4.6 miles	39
Hosmer Corner	4.8 miles	48
Shea Corner	5.6 miles	48

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 Q122571815

The 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 608517. 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.