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

West New Boston, Massachusetts

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Sandisfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 01255. It stands on Silver Brook. The Survey maps it on the Tolland Center quadrangle.

West New Boston within Berkshire County

Then and now

1888 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 109 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 New Boston, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of West New Boston, surveyed 1888

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

8 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of West New Boston between 2015 and 2019, burning about 26 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
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
21 July 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
26 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 April 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
16 April 2016Smoking1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 March 2016Debris and open burning10 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
31 January 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 637 shown

Museums hold 637 specimens collected within 10 miles of West New Boston between 1873 and 1974: 406 Plantae, 157 Fungi, 72 Animalia, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & A. C. Seymour, A. Pealey 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
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 Gentianella quinquefolia, not of this specimenGentianella quinquefolia subsp. quinquefolia1875not recorded
A photograph of the species Botrychium dissectum, not of this specimenBotrychium dissectum Spreng.1879not recorded
A photograph of the species Euphorbia polygonifolia, not of this specimenEuphorbia polygonifolia L.1879not recorded
A photograph of the species Balansia hypoxylon, not of this specimenBalansia hypoxylon (Peck) G.F.Atk.1882A. B. Seymour
A photograph of the species Bryum caespiticium, not of this specimenBryum caespiticium Hedw.1883unknownGranville
A photograph of the species Ceratodon purpureus, not of this specimenCeratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid.1883unknownGranville
A photograph of the species Chordeiles minor, not of this specimenChordeiles minor minor (J.R.Forster, 1771)1883Collector(s): H. C. Johnsonnear New Marlboro
Baeomyces roseus Pers.1895George T. MooreChestnut Hill
A photograph of the species Hypomyces hyalinus, not of this specimenHypomyces hyalinus (Schwein.) Tul. & C.Tul.1897Hollis Webster
A photograph of the species Mytilidion karstenii, not of this specimenMytilidion karstenii Sacc.1897Thaxter, R.Chestnut Hill

All 637 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
New Boston1.2 miles39
Roosterville2.0 miles39
Montville2.0 miles38
Sandisfield2.6 miles38
Cold Spring3.8 miles37
Konkapot3.9 miles38
South Sandisfield4.1 miles38
Otis Wood Lanes5.8 miles37

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 Q122540395The 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 608121. 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.