Wales, Massachusetts

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.

1887 1985

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.

• 1887 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1890 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1915 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1921 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1946 USGS Wales quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1952 USGS Wales quadrangle1:24000
• 1952 USGS Wales quadrangle1:24000
• 1952 USGS Wales quadrangle1:31680
• 1952 USGS Wales quadrangle1:31680
• 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
• 1967 USGS Wales quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Wales quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Wales quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Wales quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Wales quadrangle1:25000
• 1975 USGS Wales quadrangle1:25000
• 1982 USGS Southbridge quadrangle1:25000
• 1982 USGS Southbridge quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Wales between 2015 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 2 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:

• Brimfield
• East Brimfield
• State Line
• Holland
• Little Rest
• West Brimfield

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Museums hold 500 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wales between 1874 and 1974: 310 Fungi, 95 Plantae, 76 Animalia, 14 Chromista, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A.B. Seymour, AB Seymour 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
	Polygonum pensylvanicum L.	1897	Morris,E.L. s.n. [1897-08]	[label: Flora of North America - Herbarium of E.L. Morris] Monson. Massachussets. Rubbish heaps
	Nitella megacarpa (T.F.A.) R.D.W.	1874	Piper, S. M.
	Calostoma cinnabarinum Desv.	1879	S. J. Harkness	Thorndike.
	Calostoma fuscum (Berk.) Massee	1879	S. J. Harkness	Thorndike.
	Calostoma lutescens (Schwein.) Burnap, 1897	1879	Collector unspecified	Thorndike.
	Mitremyces Nees, 1816	1879	S. J. Harkness
	Piggotia fraxini Berk. & M.A.Curtis	1879	Harkness S. F.	Thorndike
	Cryptosporella anomala (Peck) Sacc.	1892	Graves H.	Palmer
	Goodyera pubescens (Willd.) R.Br.	1892	E. L. Morris	Monson
	Potamogeton natans L.	1892	E. L. Morris	Monson
	Sphagnum subsecundum Nees	1893	not recorded	Monson
	Lycaenidae	1894	not recorded

All 500 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Wales: 7 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Graphite. 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 Hampden County

The National Weather Service names Wales in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2005: 1 hail, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Hampden 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 609858. 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.