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

Williamsville, 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 01236. It stands on Tom Ball Mountain. The Survey maps it on the State Line quadrangle.

Williamsville 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 Williamsville, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Williamsville, 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

22 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Williamsville between 2014 and 2019, burning about 10 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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 burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
13 September 2016	Other causes	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 August 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
2 July 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 July 2019	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
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
7 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,849 shown

Museums hold 1,849 specimens collected within 10 miles of Williamsville between 1833 and 1975: 861 Plantae, 748 Animalia, 233 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Evans, A. Brown, A. E. Treat 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
Percopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)	1860	Britton McCabe	Green R. (trib. of Housatonic R.), 1 mi. S of Great Barrington on Rt. 23
Platanthera peramoena A.Gray	1863	J. T. Stewart	Glendale
Spiranthes magnicamporum Sheviak	1863	J. T. Stewart	Glendale
Bartramia pomiformis Hedw.	1895	not recorded
Acer saccharum Marshall	1897	Vail, A.M.	Tyringham

All 1,849 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 19 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Williamsville: 10 past producers, 7 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
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
J Donovan and Son	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Mercer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Nat Beacco and Sons	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Nolan Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hudson Mine	Iron	Producer	Limonite

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

4 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Williamsville in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Williamsville	-	A tree was downed blocking Great Barrington Road.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Williamsville	-	Law enforcement reported a tree down near the town of Alford.
July 2015	Hail	Williamsville	-	Quarter size hail was reported in Williamsville during a thunderstorm.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Williamsville	-	A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team determined that straight line winds downed approximately 50 trees near the intersection of Route 41 and Pixley Hill Road in West Stockbridge. Estimated peak winds were 75 to 85 mph.

Every storm 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
Housatonic	1.1 miles	42
Risingdale	1.8 miles	40
Rockdale Mills	1.8 miles	43
Glendale	2.3 miles	42
Alford	2.7 miles	42
Van Deusenville	2.8 miles	40
West Stockbridge Center	3.0 miles	43
Camp Kingsmont	3.1 miles	43

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607827. 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.