Watson, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 1998

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 Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1890 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Hawley quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Ashfield quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Ashfield quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Brattleboro quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Ashfield quadrangle1:31680
• 1955 USGS Ashfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1955 USGS Ashfield 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
• 1971 USGS Ashfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1971 USGS Ashfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1971 USGS Ashfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1975 USGS Ashfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Ashfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1990 USGS Ashfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1998 USGS Ashfield quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Watson between 2016 and 2020, burning about 19 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:

• Ashfield
• Beldingville
• Hawley
• Spruce Corner
• Baptist Corner
• Buckland Four Corners

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Museums hold 845 specimens collected within 10 miles of Watson between 1825 and 1975: 445 Fungi, 304 Plantae, 69 Animalia, 24 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gurney, A. M. Rogers, A. R. Hodgdon; H. Bigelow;R. Livingstone 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
	Cardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W.Wood	1900	F. F. Forbes
	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
	Juglans cinerea L.	1895	C. W. Trow	Buckland.
	Botrypus virginianus (L.) Michx.	1896	W. W. Bailey
	Dryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray	1896	W. W. Bailey

All 845 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Watson: 5 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lithium, Manganese, Tin, Lithium, Mica, Feldspar. 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 Franklin 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 608257. 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.