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

West Stockbridge Center, Massachusetts

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in West Stockbridge town. It lies in ZIP code area 01266. It stands on Maple Hill. The Survey maps it on the State Line quadrangle.

West Stockbridge Center 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 Stockbridge Center, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of West Stockbridge Center, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

43 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

38 since 2001

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of West Stockbridge Center between 2001 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 were 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/undetermined	11
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 August 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 July 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	New York Forest Rangers	HARRINGTON RD FIRE
25 June 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 June 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	HARVEY MOUNTAIN FIRE
8 May 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 May 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 989 shown

Museums hold 989 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Stockbridge Center between 1833 and 1975: 626 Plantae, 216 Fungi, 140 Animalia, 3 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Evans, A. Brown, A. F. Beale 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Potamogeton pusillus subsp. tenuissimus (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) K.Richt.	1900	P. B. Weatherbee
Betula alleghaniensis Britton	1833	Collector unknown
Betula pumila L.	1833	Collector unspecified
Carex utriculata Boott	1833	W. L. Worcester
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1833	Collector unknown
Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman	1833	Collector unknown
Parnassia caroliniana Michx.	1834	not recorded
Bromus latiglumis (Shear) Hitchc.	1857	W. H. Leggett
Cornus rugosa Lam.	1859	W. H. Leggett
Percopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)	1860	Britton McCabe	Green R. (trib. of Housatonic R.), 1 mi. S of Great Barrington on Rt. 23
Bartramia pomiformis Hedw.	1895	not recorded
Polystichum acrostichoides (Michx.) Schott	1899	C. Harriot	Great Barrington

All 989 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 39 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of West Stockbridge Center: 25 past producers, 10 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Iron, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cheever Mines	Iron, Manganese	Producer	Goethite, Limonite
Cheever Mines	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer
Cone Limestone Mine	Iron, Magnesite, Zinc	Past Producer	1827
No 6 Quarry & Plnt Lane & Son	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
John S Lane and Son Inc	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Toby Lime Plant	Limestone, General	Producer
Beacco Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Donovan Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gaston Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
J Donovan and Son	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Berkshire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Camp Kingsmont	0.7 miles	43
Rockdale Mills	1.7 miles	43
Crane Lake Camp	2.6 miles	43
State Line	2.9 miles	43
Williamsville	3.0 miles	43
West Stockbridge	3.4 miles	42
Glendale	3.5 miles	42
Larrywaug	3.6 miles	42

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 Q122543913

The 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 607810. 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.