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

West Brimfield, Massachusetts

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Brimfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 01010. It stands on Blodgett Mill Brook. The Survey maps it on the Palmer quadrangle.

West Brimfield 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 West Brimfield, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of West Brimfield, 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

50 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of West Brimfield between 2015 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 1 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	30
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	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
9 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
22 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
27 June 2020	Debris and open burning	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 777 shown

Museums hold 777 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Brimfield between 1857 and 1975: 429 Fungi, 183 Plantae, 160 Animalia, 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.

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
Krigia virginica (L.) Willd.	1857	not recorded
Carex cephalophora Muhl. ex Willd.	1858	J. Blake
Carex vestita Willd.	1858	J. Blake	Ware
Castilleja coccinea (L.) Spreng.	1858	A. P. Chute
Celastrus scandens L.	1858	s.coll.
Ranunculus flabellaris Raf.	1858	A. P. Chute
Trifolium agrarium L.	1858	not recorded
Zizia aurea (L.) W.D.J.Koch	1859	A. P. Chute
Catharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921)	1870	Collector(s): Joseph H. Batty	South Wilbraham
Acer spicatum Lam.	1891	not recorded
Cryptosporella anomala (Peck) Sacc.	1892	Graves H.	Palmer

All 777 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of West Brimfield: 5 producers, 4 past producers. 5 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
B and C Gravel Company	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Cemetery Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
J J Raczka Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
J.J. Raczka Sand and Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lizak's Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Palmer Bituminous Corp	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Palmer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Palmer Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Tobias Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Storms nearby

1 since 1998

The National Weather Service names West Brimfield in 1 storm report between 1998 and 1998: 1 flash 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 1998	Flash Flood	West Brimfield	-	no account filed

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
Fentonville	2.5 miles	35
Palmer Center	2.9 miles	35
Blanchardville	3.1 miles	35
Tenneyville	3.3 miles	35
Whipples	3.5 miles	35
Palmer	3.8 miles	35
Meadowbrook Green	3.9 miles	35
Dingley Dell	3.9 miles	33

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 Q122547200

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 609621. 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.