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

Windsor, Massachusetts

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Windsor town. It lies in ZIP code area 01270. It stands on Windsor Hill. The Survey maps it on the Windsor quadrangle.

Windsor within Berkshire County

Then and now

1886 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Windsor, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet of Windsor, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

38 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

6 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Windsor between 2015 and 2017, burning about 7 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 burning	5
Recreation and ceremony	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
3 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
15 May 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
12 May 2016	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
16 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
15 April 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
27 March 2016	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 628 shown

Museums hold 628 specimens collected within 10 miles of Windsor between 1865 and 1975: 312 Plantae, 157 Animalia, 149 Fungi, 6 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A K Harrison, A Schwartz, A. K. Harrison 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
Bombus ternarius Say, 1837	1898	[Not Stated]	Hinsdale
Carex novae-angliae Schwein.	1865	W. Boott	Saddle Ball Mountain
Homalia jamesii Schimp.	1867	unknown	Waconah Falls State Park
Dichelyma capillaceum (Dicks.) Myrin	1875	N. Coleman
Booneacris glacialis glacialis (Scudder, 1862)	1894	A.P. Morse
Melanoplus borealis borealis (Fieber, 1853)	1894	not recorded
Stethophyma gracile (Scudder, 1862)	1894	not recorded
Puccinia grossulariae Lagerh.	1898	Churchill	Adams
Dryopteris cristata (L.) A.Gray	1900	C. Harriot	Berkshire
Dryopteris × boottii (Tuck.) Underw.	1900	C. Harriot	Berkshire
Ischnura verticalis (Say, 1840)	1923	M. Ford	Pontoosuc Lake, Pittsfield
Sympetrum obtrusum (Hagen, 1867)	1923	M. Ford	Pontoosuc Lake, Pittsfield

All 628 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Windsor: 2 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Talc-Soapstone, Copper, Nickel. 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
Lonzo Reeds Prospect	Copper, Nickel	Occurrence
Dalton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Donovan Blacktop Service Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Talc Prospect	Talc-Soapstone	Occurrence	Metamorphic
Talc Prospect	Talc-Soapstone	Prospect

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Storms nearby

13 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Windsor in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
July 1997	Hail	Windsor	$4,000	no account filed
August 1996	Hail	Windsor	$200	no account filed
October 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	-	A portion of Route 9 between Dalton and Windsor was closed due to multiple trees downed.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	-	A tree and wires were downed on Route 9 at the intersection of Hill Street and Hill Road.
August 2015	Hail	Windsor	-	Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Windsor.
May 2013	Hail	Windsor	-	A trained spotter reported quarter size hail from a thunderstorm in Windsor.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	-	Wires were reported down approximately 2 miles southwest of Windsor due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2011	Hail	East Windsor	-	Hail 4 inches in diameter (measured) was reported during a thunderstorm in the Village of East Windsor.
August 2008	Hail	Windsor	-	Penny size hail was reported in Windsor during a thunderstorm.
September 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	East Windsor	-	Large tree limbs, approximately 6 inches in diameter, were downed on East Windsor Road in East Windsor due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2003	Flash Flood	Windsor	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Windsor	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Windsor	-	no account filed

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
Beechwood Estates	3.8 miles	37
Savoy	4.1 miles	38
Camp Taconic	4.4 miles	37
East Windsor	4.5 miles	35
Camp Ashmere	4.8 miles	37
Camp Danbee	4.8 miles	37
Peru	5.1 miles	37
Camp Lenore	5.3 miles	37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607829. 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.