West Leyden, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1890 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.

• 1890 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1937 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Brattleboro quadrangle1:125000
• 1945 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:24000
• 1946 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:25000
• 1977 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Colrain quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Bernardston quadrangle1:25000
• 1990 USGS Bernardston quadrangle1:25000
• 1998 USGS Bernardston quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of West Leyden between 2017 and 2020, burning about 8 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:

• Stewartville
• Elm Grove
• Fort Morrison
• Leyden
• Fort Lucas
• Colrain

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Museums hold 748 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Leyden between 1847 and 1975: 308 Animalia, 232 Plantae, 105 Unrecorded, 96 Fungi, 7 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S Pease, A. J. Grout, A. S. Pease 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
	Cardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W.Wood	1900	F. F. Forbes
	Cinna latifolia (Trevir. ex Göpp.) Griseb.	1847	Russell
	unnamed (fossil)	1867	Othniel C. Marsh	black sh, N side of Connecticut River, Horse Race, Gill
	Spiranthes ochroleuca (Rydb.) Rydb.	1894	Swinerton, J.R.	Greenfield
	Juglans cinerea L.	1895	C. W. Trow	Buckland.
	Potamogeton bicupulatus Fernald	1895	A. J. Grout	Lily Pond
	Rhexia virginica L.	1895	A. J. Grout	Lily Pond
	Carex plantaginea Lam.	1896	Sydney Harris	Woods near Factory Village [Note: Location found by Geolocate is in Franklin County]
	Daedalea confragosa (Bolton) Pers.	1927	Hansbrough J. R.	Greenfield
	Dasyscyphus calycinus (Schumach.) Fuckel	1927	Hansbrough J. R.	Colrain
	Fomes fomentarius (L.) Fr.	1927	Skellanger L. E.	Colrain
	Nectria cinnabarina (Tode) Fr.	1927	Hansbrough J. R.	Colrain

All 748 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of West Leyden: 2 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Slate, Dimension, Sulfides, Sulfur. 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 608259. 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.