West Otis, Massachusetts

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.

1888 1997

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.

• 1888 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1899 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1907 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Sandisfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1946 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:31680
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:24000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:25000
• 1973 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:24000
• 1973 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:25000
• 1975 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Otis quadrangle1:25000
• 1997 USGS Otis quadrangle1:25000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of West Otis between 2015 and 2020, burning about 6 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:

• Camp Jayson
• North Otis
• Hephzibah Heights
• Montville
• New Boston
• Otis

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Museums hold 1,445 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Otis between 1834 and 1975: 699 Animalia, 659 Plantae, 86 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Treat, A. K. Harrison, A. M. Vail 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
	Parnassia caroliniana Michx.	1834	not recorded
	Botrychium lanceolatum (S.G.Gmel.) Ångstr.	1873	S. M. Piper
	Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.	1874	Frederick N. Pease
	Gentianella quinquefolia subsp. quinquefolia	1875	not recorded
	Botrychium angustisegmentum (Pease & A.H.Moore) Fernald	1879	not recorded
	Botrychium dissectum Spreng.	1879	not recorded
	Euphorbia polygonifolia L.	1879	not recorded
	Chordeiles minor minor (J.R.Forster, 1771)	1883	Collector(s): H. C. Johnson	near New Marlboro
	Botrychium virginianum subsp. typicum R.T.Clausen	1884	Spencer, M.F.	Tyringham. In silvaticis.
	Baeomyces roseus Pers.	1895	George T. Moore	Chestnut Hill
	Acer saccharum Marshall	1897	Vail, A.M.	Tyringham
	Acer spicatum Lam.	1897	Vail, A.M.	Vicinity of Tyringham

All 1,445 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names West Otis in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2004: 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Berkshire 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 607807. 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.

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.