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West Granville, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Granville town. It lies in ZIP code area 01034. It stands on Ore Hill. The Survey maps it on the West Granville quadrangle.

West Granville 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 West Granville, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of West Granville, surveyed 1887

Compare 1887 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

39 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

12 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of West Granville between 2012 and 2019, burning about 37 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConnecticut Division of Forestrynot named
27 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConnecticut Division of Forestrynot named
16 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConnecticut Division of ForestryHARTLAND
9 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConnecticut Division of ForestryHARTLAND
30 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConnecticut Division of ForestryHARTLAND
23 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresConnecticut Division of ForestryFULLER ROAD HARTLAND CT
20 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConnecticut Division of ForestryHARTLAND
17 April 2016Recreation and ceremony32 acresConnecticut Division of ForestryTUNXIS STATE FOREST, 10 WILDERNESS ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,924 shown

Museums hold 1,924 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Granville between 1831 and 1974: 1,197 Fungi, 578 Plantae, 83 Animalia, 50 Chromista, 16 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by "WJG", A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & A. C. 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of FungiFungi1890Seymour, Arthur BlissGranville
Specimen of Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1890Arthur B. SeymourGranville
Specimen of Sphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.Sphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.1893Daniel C. Eaton
A photograph of the species Panax quinquefolius, not of this specimenPanax quinquefolius L.1831Collector unspecifiedBlandford
A photograph of the species Microstroma juglandis, not of this specimenMicrostroma juglandis (Bérenger) Sacc.1868G. Cummings; A.B & A.C Seymore
A photograph of the species Buteo platypterus, not of this specimenButeo platypterus (Vieillot, 1823)1870Crum, Milo Tuttle; Clinton Mellen Jones CollectionRussell
A photograph of the species Poecile atricapillus, not of this specimenPoecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766)1870Clinton Mellen Jones CollectionRussell
A photograph of the species Chaetura pelagica, not of this specimenChaetura pelagica (Linnaeus, 1758)1872Collector(s): William BrewsterGranville
A photograph of the species Botrychium lanceolatum, not of this specimenBotrychium lanceolatum (S.G.Gmel.) Ångstr.1873S. M. Piper
A photograph of the species Eleusine indica, not of this specimenEleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.1874Frederick N. Pease
A photograph of the species Nuphar advena, not of this specimenNuphar advena (Aiton) Aiton1878Hayden, N. W.Southwick Pond
A photograph of the species Pontederia cordata, not of this specimenPontederia cordata L.1878N. W. Hayden

All 1,924 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of West Granville: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Mica, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Granville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mica MinesMicaPast Producer
Soapstone QuarryTalc-SoapstoneProducerMetamorphic
Soapstone QuarryTalc-SoapstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Storms nearby

4 since 2008

The National Weather Service names West Granville in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2018Thunderstorm WindWest Granville$3,000At 2:25 PM EST, wind brought three trees down blocking North Lane in Granville.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindWest Granville$800In Granville, a tree was down on wires on North Lane.
August 2024HailWest Granville-In West Granville, 2 inch hail fell.
September 2008HailWest Granville-Penny to quarter size hail fell in a swath west of Granville.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Baird Four Corners3.1 miles39
Granville Center3.5 miles39
Tolland Center3.6 miles39
Granville4.4 miles42
Camp Spruce Hill4.9 miles39
Skyland5.5 miles39
South Quarter6.2 miles37
Camp Woronoak6.5 miles37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608377. 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.