West Farms, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 111 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1887 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.

• 1887 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1896 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1897 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1937 USGS Woronoco quadrangle1:24000
• 1942 USGS Woronoco quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS Woronoco quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1951 USGS Woronoco quadrangle1:24000
• 1951 USGS Woronoco quadrangle1:24000
• 1951 USGS Woronoco 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 Woronoco quadrangle1:25000
• 1967 USGS Woronoco quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Woronoco quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Blandford quadrangle1:25000
• 1998 USGS Blandford quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of West Farms between 2004 and 2020, burning about 426 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.

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:

• Hampton Village
• Wyben
• East Farms
• Trainfield
• Montgomery
• Mundale

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Museums hold 2,105 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Farms between 1822 and 1975: 1,137 Fungi, 654 Plantae, 239 Animalia, 61 Chromista, 14 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & Clara E. Cummings, A. B. Seymour; (a) A. B. Seymour, (b) Martin 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
	Fungi	1890	Seymour, Arthur Bliss	Granville
	Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.	1890	Arthur B. Seymour	Granville
	Lycopodiella inundata (L.) Holub	1892	Chapman	Southhampton
	Porella platyphylloidea (Schwein.) Lindb.	1822	Emmons	Norwich
	Carex bromoides Willd.	1831	Collector unknown
	Panax quinquefolius L.	1831	Collector unspecified	Blandford
	Carex vesicaria L.	1836	Collector unknown
	Carex vestita Willd.	1836	Collector unspecified
	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

All 2,105 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of West Farms: 9 past producers, 5 producers, 2 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Lead, 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.

Every working recorded in Hampden County

The National Weather Service names West Farms in 1 storm report between 2015 and 2015: 1 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.

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 608521. 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.